The recent works by two Latin American authors, Luisa Futoransky
(Argentina) and Marta Aponte Alsina (Puerto Rico) that I study in this article, are
good examples of what I call ‘texts in transit’. The intrinsic mobility in their
propositions implies the globalized world and the interrelation between the local
and global expressions: the glocality. The concept of the glocal is the
transmodern summation and transformation of the modernist ‘global’ and the
postmodernist ‘local’.
The purpose of this article is to explore the transmodern gestures in these
works following the postulates of the philosophers Rosa Maria Rodriguez
Magda (Spanish) and Enrique Dussel (Argentine) about Transmodernidad. I
analyze how the writings of these two women authors, transcend the limits of
modernity, surpass the nihilism of postmodernity, and allude to a literary world
in constant flux, where the interregnum of the transmodernity works as a type of
glocalized encounter of the Spanish American expression and the global
literary world.