impossibilia-8-octubre-2014

Literatures, Cultures, AndMigrationsArt –and especialy Literature–, as a posible and relevant discourse about the world, has always actedas a vehicle of transmision as wel as an umbilical cord betwen diferent cultural realities. his status raisesthe proceses both of interculturality, in which diverse cultural elements coexist with the conscience of theirdiferences, and of transcultural exchange, where the mutual inluence betwen cultures causes thereciprocal incorporation of foreign characters. he overlapping of these two levels would result in a thirdmodel of appropriation, the so-caled acculturation, in which the alien cultural elements are acepted andperceived as own, without any knowledge about the the culture of origin.Imposibilia, on its 9th Isue, invites the academic community to consider the proceses wementioned, as wel as the concepts of interculturality, transculturality and aculturation, their causes andtheir efects, over time, in literary production, heory, Critic, and History.To develop these topics, we propose the folowing perspectives and critical approaches:–Transcultural elements in Literature, as a result of present and past migrant luxes (e.g. Africans andAsian elements in the European or in the American culture, and vice versa).–Acquired cultural elements in close Literatures (e.g. betwen French and Spanish Literature orbetwen Mexican and American Literature) or in geographicaly distant cultures (e.g. betwenArgentine and Italian).–Impact of globalization on Literature.–New technologies and mas media inluence and presence in literary transcultural proces.–Socio-cultural, political, and ideological causes and theirs efects on foreign elements incorporation(e.g, in Western literature).–Aculturation proces.Convocatoria nº9 – Literaturas, culturas y migraciónCal for papers, isue 9th – Literatures, Cultures and Migration284