![]() The term “glottopolitics” (from language – ‘glottos’- and politics) was first used by Robert Hall (1951) to refer the deployment of applied linguistics to the governmental management of language within culturally and linguistically plural contexts. ![]() ![]() A methodological question: What is glottopolitics? ![]() Introduction: A Glottopolitical Perspective on El Hachmi’s Fictional Biography Migration, language, patriarchy, exile, agency Ultimately, El Hachmi’s personal odyssey throughout the intricacies of Catalan as a language of adoption allows the protagonist to find her own agency by developing a metalinguistic perspective that paves the way for her critique of both the fetishization of the written word as a site of colonial authority, and her father’s patriarchal prescription of the grammar of her own life. In this sense, the use of the Catalan dictionary as a literary device allows El Hachmi to convey her gradual adoption of a transgressive approach to linguistic and sexual normativity. I will contend that such reading bears witness to a personal commitment to rescue literature qua practice of self-discovery to shed light on and re-create one’s psychological, physical, and historical reality. In order to do so, I shall pay attention to the protagonist’s critical reading of the Catalan dictionary as it runs parallel to her transition from childhood into adulthood. In particular, I will focus on the narrator’s journey of linguistic migration, from her native language (Tamazight) to her language of adoption (Catalan). This exploration not only produces new insights into masculinity, but also yields nuanced insights into the recuperation of memory in contemporary Spain, the reconfiguration of the family, the status of women in Spanish society, and regional identities.This essay deals with the way Najat El Hachmi’s constructs her own authorial voice in L’Ultim Patriarca (2008) as a female Moroccan migrant living in Catalonia. Principal themes of the volume include alternative families, queer masculinities, performative masculinities, memory and resistance to hegemonic discourses of manliness, violence and emotions, public versus private masculinities, regional masculinities, and marginal masculinities. Divided into three thematic units, starting with the undermining of the monolithic Francoist archetype of masculinity, continuing with the reformulation of hegemonic masculinity and finishing with regional emergent masculinities, all of the volume´s essays focus on the redefinition of Spanish masculinities. ![]() This collection of essays explores cultural phenomena that are shaping masculine identities in contemporary Spain, asking and striving to answer these compelling questions: what does it mean to be a man in present-day Spain? How has masculinity evolved since Franco’s dictatorship? What are the dynamics of masculinity in contemporary Spanish culture? How has hegemonic masculinity been contested in cultural productions? This volume is comprised of sixteen essays that address these very questions by examining literary, cultural and film representations of the configurations of masculinities in contemporary Spain. ![]()
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