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Contemporary Women's Writing 2007 1(1-2):34-44; doi:10.1093/cww/vpm013
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Impure Lines: Multilingualism, Hybridity, and Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Women's Poetry

Marina Camboni

University of Macerata, Italy camboni@unimc.it

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Mental geographies at the turn of the century are greatly changed, for not only do we live in a globalized world, but we are also all too aware of the crisis that unites us in the cosmopolitanism of perpetual risk (Beck 2005: ch. 2), risk which affects the real and ideological role played by national and international borders. Moreover, epochal changes and general insecurity have generated in some individuals and communities a psychological desire for fundamental and permanent values, "a secular version of eternity" in E. J. Hobsbawm's words (2000: 28). Challenging this search for eternity, the women whose poetry I have been reading in the past fifteen years have established their ground on that impermanent place where things change and gendered social, cultural, and political orders are redefined. The space of "all transformative impermanence (and impertinence)," Rachel Blau DuPlessis calls it in her Blue Studios (2006: 239). In addition, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Words Migrate
 

   Nepantla or, Multicentric Cosmopolitanism
 

   Exo or, the No-place/No-where
 

   De l’irriducibilité, or of the Visible, Suffering Body
 

   Nomadic "otherhow"
 

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