Tourists, locals, and migrants
Linked mobilities in short fiction by Dominican writer Aurora Arias
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5674147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Easley Morris (0000-0002-5740-9865, Louisiana State University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 81-96 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0826-3663 • E-ISSN: 2333-1461 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08263663.2015.1031494 |
| OpenAlex | W1561769755 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
The article examines the representation of different types of movers and non-movers in Aurora Arias’s short story collection Emoticons (2007) against the backdrop of the dramatic rise of tourism and out-migration in the Dominican Republic since the 1990s. Zygmunt Bauman’s interpretation of glocalization as well as his metaphors of mobility provide a point of departure for analysis of what the short stories “Emoticons” and “Bachata” contribute to our understanding of the relationship between the local and the global, and the role of mobility in how we conceptualize these categories. I consider ways in which (im)mobility is gendered and racialized and how patterns of mobility between developed/developing countries are represented and critiqued. I argue that the relationships between movers and non-movers under globalization both mirror and diverge from those established under colonialism and neo-colonialism. Through multiple perspectives on the encounters among locals, tourists, and expatriates Arias’s narratives suggest alternatives to the (im)mobile subjectivities that tend to reinforce global inequalities
Colonialism · Economic geography · Geography · Globalization · Glocalization · Inequality · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Mobilities · Narrative · Political science · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Transnationalism · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Sex work and related issues · Gender Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |