The hyphen or the expression of eroded identity in the Guinean-Ecuadorian migration narrative

Abstract

Evidence suggests that the question of migrations nowadays has become a major challenge of the political, social, and imaginary life of the “Tout-Monde”. We are witnessing an accentuation of the Intra African, trans-African and transcontinental migrations. In addition to South-South migrations, the migrations from Africa to Europe are to which mass media pay more attention. This article highlights some theoretical-practical aspects around the identity of the post-colonial sub-Saharan migrant, based on two Equatorial Guinea novels, Los poderes de la tempestad by Donato Ndongo y Nostalgia de un emigrante by Inocencio Engon. It reviews, for example, the concept of identity and defends its unitary and complex/dynamic conditions at the same time. In addition, after pointing out “various forces” that operate against this complex psychic reality, it is shown that the erosion of the basic identity occurs both in the family lap and in the situation of hyphen that is in the context of migration.