Post-altérités chez Giannina Braschi : un exemple de réfraction dans la (dés)identification portoricaine

Against any essentialist spectrum of identity (idem), this paper aims to show hybridization as a (trans)formation strategy for Puerto Rican national singularity (ipse). By reading across Giannina Braschi’s major literary production, this paper illustrates autofiction, translingualism and nomadism as socio-literary strategies of identification (Brubaker), or even of disidentification (Muñoz, Sedgwick). By questioning the idea of post-identity, I will focus on post-otherness, an otherness not declining the identical, nor erasing its solidity, but simply permeabilizing and elasticizing it. Against the hegemony of the identity’s concept, I will go beyond the constructivist approach of postmodernism, in order to illustrate that identity’s prism can contrast the intransigence of appellation.