LA CUESTIÓN DE LA IDENTIDAD Explorar el concepto de la identidad entre nosotros  Categorías  Elementos, aspectos, símbolos La expresión de la identidad

Categorías  Familia/ relaciones familiares  Profesión  Creencias religiosas o la ausenica de ellas  Lealtades políticas  Cultura popular, i.e. comida, música  Entidad política: ciudad, región, país, continente

 Ejercicio escrito ¿En qué consiste tu identidad nacional? ¿Qué es lo que configura tu nacionalidad estadounidense, cubana, o española? ¿Te consideras un “híbrido”? ¿En qué manera expresamos o articulamos nuestra identidad? Escribir: 1)Piensa con qué te identificas más: país, ciudad, región. 2)¿Qué ideologías, creencias, costumbres, lealtades, gustos, preferencias, etc. constituyen o representan esta identidad para ti? 3)¿Te ves como un representante típico de tu país, ciudad o región? Explica por qué sí o no.

 Benedict Anderson. Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Nationalism is always a modeled but not inauthentic phenomenon. Definition of nation: it is an imagined political community --and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign.

 Anderson, p. 2 Nationalism has to understood by aligning it, not with self- consciously-held political ideologies, but with the large cultural systems that preceded it, out of which--as well as against which- - it came into being. The two relevant cultural systems are the religious community and dynastic realm. Both of these, in their heydays, were taken- for-granted frames of reference, very much as nationality is today. It is therefore essential to consider what gave these cultural systems their self-evident plausibility, and at the same time to underline certain key elements in their decomposition.

 Anderson contempla: How nation-states were constructed—via the “fictive” discourse of newspapers and novels. National is “aligned to abstract ideologies such as liberal marxism but is mystically inflected from the religious cultural systems out of which—as well as against which –it came into being.”

Homi Bhabha Nation and Narration Ambivalence and cultural indetermination of modern society. Ambivalent margin of the nation- space. The authors of the articles in his collection situate themselves in the “in-between” spaces—the crossroads of a new transnational culture. ¿Estos conceptos nos ayudan a entender la búsqueda representada en la narrativa deCortázar?