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Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 4 2o18 Graciela Susana Boruszko | Transliteratures 111 “No parece haber definición esencialista posible, sino lugares complejos para una identidad multidimensional fabricada a partir de pertenencias, préstamos y con- sumos para una síntesis personal.” (Sanz 2008:15) “¿Es realmente necesario en este fin de siglo que la afirmación de sí mismo implique con tanta frecuencia la negación de los demás? (…) Si el individuo cuya lengua estoy aprendiendo no respeta la mía, hablar su idioma deja de ser para mí un acto de aper- tura, se convierte en un acto de sumisión.” (Maalouf, 1998:56) “…que la literatura, entre otras cosas, es también un viaje en busca de la refutación del mito del otro lado, para comprender que cada uno se encuentra ora de este lado ora del otro- que cada uno, como en un miste- rio medieval es el “Otro.” (Magris 2001:43) “It seems that there is no essential possible definition, but rather complex places for a multidimensional identity created out of belongings, loans and consumptions for a personal synthesis.” (Translation by the author) “Is it really necessary at the end of this cen- tury that the affirmation of the self implies so frequently the negation of all the others? (…) If the individual, whose language I am learning does not respect mine, to speak his or her language is no longer an act of open- ness, it becomes an act of submission.” (Translation by the author) “… that literature among other things, is also a journey in search of the rebuttal of the myth of the other side, in order to understand that each one is either on this side or on the other side- that each one, as in a Medieval mystery is the “Other.” (Translation by the author) That is how the individual identity fissures when facing “the other” multiple times and in diverse spaces. In each of these encounters “the self” responds to “the other” and finds in “the other” a part of the “self,” and in this way the personal sense of identity keeps being reconstruc- ted since at times it is being affected by an unexpected polysemy. Amin Maalouf elaborates in this topic in his work: Las identidades asesinas. Within a politicized globalization it is necessary that each individual in each exchange or nego- tiation, admits all marginalized element into his or her own center fashioning a conceptual and practical marginalization that overburdens the individual, creating simultaneously a comple- xity in the perception and handling of the interculturality. Claudio Magris explains it: According to Raymond Williams, in relation to the meaning of culture, we find ourselves in a process of approaching and being in contact with individuals creating a net of shared meanings. Culture, then is conceived as an animated connection, that based in intuition, is defined in each exchange and in each space that is established. The internal and external spaces simulta- neously transport dynamic currents that carry a cluster of semiotic systems in synchrony. This process is illustrated in the literature of the Pateras in Spain as Soler-Espiauba explains it: “La Palabra de los Sin-Palabra en el Estre- cho (Estrecho de Gibraltar) todavía no ha “The Word of the Sin-Palabra or silenced in the Strait (Strait of Gibraltar) still has