Textos en Tránsito: Transmodernidad en Obras de Dos Escritoras Hispanoamericanas

Abstract

The recent works by two Latin American authors, Luisa Futoransky

(Argentina) and Marta Aponte Alsina (Puerto Rico) that I study in this article, are

good examples of what I call texts in transit. The intrinsic mobility in their

propositions implies the globalized world and the interrelation between the local

and global expressions: the glocality. The concept of the glocal is the

transmodern summation and transformation of the modernist global and the

postmodernist local.

The purpose of this article is to explore the transmodern gestures in these

works following the postulates of the philosophers Rosa María Rodríguez

Magda (Spanish) and Enrique Dussel (Argentine) about Transmodernidad. I

analyze how the writings of these two women authors, transcend the limits of

modernity, surpass the nihilism of postmodernity, and allude to a literary world

in constant flux, where the interregnum of the transmodernity works as a type of

glocalized encounter of the Spanish American expression and the global

literary world.