Transitory Identities in El lunes nos querrán by Najat el Hachmi

Abstract

The purpose of the present work is to study the representation of identity from the verstehen of migratory subjectivity in the work of Najat el Hachmi. Using an eclectic analytical methodology, we focus on the agency of certain narratological resources in the construction of a transitory and hybrid conception of the identity of the migrant subject in El lunes nos querrán [On Monday they will Love us]. We explore the literary re- codification of fundamental elements of the female migratory reality, in order to decon- struct the fetters of power that constrain the life and identity of two of the book’s protago- nists. But also to construct a world of non-belonging, in which the identity of the two women is built upon a continuous journey of subversion and questioning of the canonical representations of it. Our intention is to trace the literary itinerary that allows the two women to avoid the gaze of a multiple hegemonic system and break the circle of double marginality (gender and culture), to make the literary exploration of the body, love, sex and writing an instrument with which to construct a fleeting and transitory identity from a verstehenian mode of knowledge.