| Abstract | Liminal Solidarity Imaginaries in the Works of Ángela Nzambi and Mohamed El Morabet María José Gonzálvez’s research explores how contemporary literature—particularly that which emerges from diasporic experiences—blurs physical and cultural boundaries, giving voice to migrant subjects as new forms of relationality. Within this framework, Un solar abandonado (2018), El invierno de los jilgueros (2022), and Ecos en la nieve (2025) by Mohamed El Morabet, together with Círculo de mujeres. Relatos para transformar (2020) by Ángela Nzambi—a short story included in a collective volume edited by CEAR-PV (Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado – País Valencià) that gathers fifteen short stories written by migrant, volunteer, and associate women—offer powerful representations of how transnational experiences generate networks of support and resistance in response to the tensions of displacement and migration.
This research, drawing upon Édouard Glissant’s (1997) theories of the poetics of relation and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Globalectics (2012) and Decolonising the Mind (1986), adopts an interdisciplinary approach that interweaves literary analysis with cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and migration and diaspora studies. Such an approach enables a reading of these works from multiple perspectives, exploring not only their narrative structures but also the processes of identity formation, belonging, and solidarity that emerge within transnational contexts.
At the same time, Gonzálvez’s analysis offers an innovative perspective by comparatively examining the works of two contemporary African authors who, despite their geographical and contextual differences, share common concerns regarding migration, displacement, and the dynamics of power. These imaginaries may also be understood as liminal, in Victor Turner’s (1969) sense of the term, as they arise in spaces of transition where identities and senses of belonging are reconfigured—thereby contributing to the construction of solidarity imaginaries that encourage cultural exchange and transformation. |
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