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Graciela Susana Boruszko | Transliteratures 109
the transcultural communication in the XXI century. I will study how the plot in Casablanca
after being confined to cultural stereotypes and thus being held immobile, then thanks to the
creation of a new transliterary space, the story migrates and participates in the globalized dia-
logue that even transcends the literary realm of origin. This literary and cultural migration take
place in a landscape that represents the transitional aspect of the literary transaction creating a
unique geographical landscape, the transcultural space, that I will explore in detail.
When the story enters the cultural space of “the other” it displays characteristics that by
transmuting themselves become “strange” parading themselves as “otherness.” Then the story
is interpreted by the “listening self” using previous referential knowledge of “the other” in
order to interpret the message with more or less accuracy and skill. It is in this way, that the
cultures manifest themselves in intercultural spaces, where a culture with very permeable bor-
ders receives the manifestation of another culture in a shared space by both, that is to say the
intercultural space. The exchange and dialogue are established by the receiving cultural space
as well as by the emitting cultural space that create an in-between space. This mobile space is
temporarily established in each transcultural and transliterary exchange, comprising the char-
acteristics of emission and reception that each interlocutor or interlocutors will assign to it. This
space by being created between the two parties becomes intimate since the dialogue established
is always a reciprocal space that nonetheless could be made public. The instability of this inter-
cultural space of exchange lays in the will of each interlocutor to communicate in the moment.
In future exchanges this space can be re-established adopting either the same or new norms
of communication. As the interlocutors get to know each other establishing nexus with more
frequency reinforcing their will to communicate, these transcultural spaces acquire more stable
characteristics, and in this scenario, expectations start to arise.
Shared literary spaces
Literature participates in the convocations that are established in the framework of “shared
spaces” where the participants are not in closed spaces but rather they are open to the exchanges
in “open air” where the dialogues transpose pre-established barriers. The atmosphere that sur-
rounds this space is constituted by a certain curiosity born in the “not knowing” that convokes
the “other or others” in order to know what “the other” knows from an attitude of sharing. It
is then that the spaces open up, and the communication or a reciprocal exchange is established
and validated within a shared space. Cultures and literatures touch each other in the human
space that convoked them.
The hypercultural space is the space that literature uses to represent or show the text ges-
tated in a unilateral space. This hypercultural space while presenting varied cultural character-
istics is inhabited by “the self” and “the other” that using technology as the media, emit and
receive messages.
The most remarkable effect has been the tendency to combined and transversal readings,
the promotion of esthetic and literary models coming from diverse sources.
“… encuentran ya en el fin de siglo las pri-
meras respuestas estéticas de jóvenes plena-
mente sincronizados con el siglo XXI y son “…they find at the end of the century the
first esthetic answers of young people com-
pletely synchronized with the XXI century
Mobile Culture Studies
The Journal, Volume 4/2018
- Title
- Mobile Culture Studies
- Subtitle
- The Journal
- Volume
- 4/2018
- Editor
- Karl Franzens University Graz
- Location
- Graz
- Date
- 2018
- Language
- German, English
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Size
- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Pages
- 182
- Categories
- Zeitschriften Mobile Culture Studies The Journal