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Aesthetics, Ethics and Strategics of the New Migratory Cartographies and Transcultural Identities in Twenty-First-Century Literature(s) in English

Funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (PID2019-109582GB-I00)

Period: 2020-2023

  1. MIGRATIONS: A NEW VOCABULARY
    1. Contemporary Migratory Flows.
    2. Recent Migratory Cartographies.
    3. A Novel Way of Understanding and Intepreting Migratory Flows.
    4. Migrants
    5. Exiles
    6. Refugees
    7. Asylum Seekers.
  1. INTERCULTURALISM VS MULTICULTURALISM
    1. Dialogue and Conflict within Culturally Diverse Societies.
    2. Complex Societies within Nation-States.
    3. Relationships amongst People from Diverse Nationalities.
    4. Terrorism
    5. Fundamentalism
    6. Racism
    7. Nationalism
  1. TRANSCULTURALISM
    1. Trunsculturalism
    2. The Transcultural Approach.
    3. Theoretical Development.
    4. Contemporary Transcultural Encounters.
    5. Transcultural Identities.
    6. Ethical Component.
  1. TRANSCULTURAL NARRATIVES
    1. The Transcultural Author/Writer.
    2. The Transcultural Reader/Recipient.
    3. Aesthetic Recourses.
    4. Creative and Narrative Techniques.
    5. Representation of Disagreement, Silence, Failure, and Cultural Conflict.
    6. Social Conflict and Strategic Potential.

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