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This article analyzes how Severo Sarduy uses toponyms, demonyms, and foreign loanwords in the novel Maitreya (1978). The narrator approaches these words from a deterritorialized perspective, rethinking geography as a science (toponyms), identity as a concept rooted in a homeland (demonyms), and the purity of language as a closed system (foreign loanwords). The analysis hypothesizes that the use of these words as visual-poetic flashes builds a rich idiolect without consideration for their referential function.

«Le Malde mer» by Marie Darrieussecq: challenge of the clichés and Mothercomplex.The aim of the article is to interpret the non-typical modes through which Marie Darrieussecq describes a case of alienation caused by the Mother complex, in the novel “Le Mal de mer”.The feeling of the maternity is questioned in a daring way, by a problematical women-trio, on three generations. References as Gaston Bachelard or Julia Kristeva are used in order to explain an archetypal imagery or a theory from psychoanalysis. The writer proceeds to a personalization of the Sea (actually, the maincharacter of the novel), and also to a scientific approach in several descriptions. Instead of a traditional plot, the novel offers a new vision on the Universe, on the Earth and on the oceans. The idea of belonging to a certain space is also questioned and the issue is to present a deterritorialization which becomes more and more frequent nowadays

In recent years, Italian philosophy is having enormous success in the United States, to the point that today we hear more and more of the “New Italian Thought”. The objective of this essay is to analyse this phenomenon from a historical point of view and see how and to what extent interest in Italian thought has grown in the USA, traversing the fundamental stages that have contributed to the acknowledgement of the “New Italian Thought”.

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Resumen Este artículo ofrece una aproximación general sobre los derechos territoriales de la población afrocolombiana que se ha visto obligada a migrar de los contextos rurales hacia las ciudades y las grandes concentraciones urbanas. Dicho fenómeno se aborda partiendo de las diversas nociones del territorio y los principales factores explicativos de la desterritorialización de afrodescendientes en el país, reconociendo las diferentes oleadas migratorias y el impacto del desplazamiento forzado de afrocolombianos principalmente de la región Pacífica hacia las ciudades, lo que permite entender las dinámicas de apropiación de estas comunidades en los contextos urbanos. Para este propósito se hará una lectura desde enfoques sociojurídicos que evidencian las luchas por la inclusión y las reivindicaciones que dan origen a los territorios afrourbanos como figura que garantiza la permanencia territorial no delimitada en razón de la propiedad, sino como escenarios para la construcción dialéctica de las ciudades que promueve la pervivencia étnica, política, económica, social y cultural de las comunidades afrodescendientes que se apropian permanentemente de ellas.