Navegando hacia mi playa: The Sea as Representation of Longing and Return in Raquel Ilombé’s Poetry

Exile, nostalgia, and unhomeliness appear as recurring themes within Equatorial Guinean literature, which has been heavily shaped through texts that portray the experience of the diaspora. Within this tradition, the poetry of Raquel Ilombé (1938–92) appears as a fundamental example of how diasporic...

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Vydané v:Research in African literatures Ročník 55; číslo 2; s. 25 - 35
Hlavný autor: El, Diego Gutierrez
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Bloomington Indiana University Press 22.06.2025
Predmet:
African literature
Ambivalence
Colonialism
Criticism and interpretation
Diaspora
Diasporas
Exile
Experience
Helplessness
Identity
Ilombe, Raquel
Liminality
Literary canon
Literary criticism
Literary history
Nostalgia
Ocean
Oceans
Poetry
Poets
Portrayals
Racial identity
Traditions
Works
Equatorial Guinea
Spain
ISSN:0034-5210, 1527-2044, 1527-2044
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Shrnutí:Exile, nostalgia, and unhomeliness appear as recurring themes within Equatorial Guinean literature, which has been heavily shaped through texts that portray the experience of the diaspora. Within this tradition, the poetry of Raquel Ilombé (1938–92) appears as a fundamental example of how diasporic Equatoguinean identity is represented in literature. Throughout Raquel Ilombe’s poetic work, the sea appears as an ambivalent image that represents both the longing for the motherland and the impossibility of return. Through the shifting signification of the sea, Ilombé’s poetry presents a fluctuating identity through which the anxieties of exile become apparent. The purpose of this article is to analyze the way in which, across Ilombe’s oeuvre, the sea incarnates feelings of longing, hope, and helplessness alike, therefore portraying the tensions of diasporic identity. These devices, in turn, form and influence an Equatoguinean literary canon that has often been underexplored and whose traditions of depicting the experience of liminality provide a window into the sensibilities of the migratory experience.
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ISSN:0034-5210
1527-2044
1527-2044
DOI:10.2979/ral.00057