Abstract

LLORENTE, María Ema. Forms and Threats of Otherness. Dehumanized Depictions of the Stranger in Spanish Poetry Today. En-clav. pen [online]. 2021, vol.15, n.30, e438.  Epub Sep 06, 2021. ISSN 2594-1100.  https://doi.org/10.46530/ecdp.v0i30.438.

This paper focuses on the study of the representation of the self construed as other in current Spanish poetry. Such otherness is expressed in the texts through depersonalized or dehumanized forms whose presence is perceived as a danger undermining the subject’s integrity and threatening to annihilate it. A study of otherness related to the figures of the stranger, the foreigner or the intruder is presented herein. Some sociological, philosophical or anthropological concepts expressed by authors such as Žižek, Girard, Bauman and Graham will be used for this purpose. Building on the concept of ‘inherent tension’ or ‘essential lack’, the poems account for the inner struggle of the individual in search for a solution to this crisis, in texts swinging between ascertainment, development or overcoming, and ultimately revealing that the idea of a single, consistent and steady identity is a need or desire, but it is also a utopia.

Keywords : identity; inherent tension; fear of extinction; dehumanization of the stranger; monstrous double.

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