![]() ![]() In particular, I will focus on the narrator's journey of linguistic migration, from her native language (Tamazight) to her language of adoption (Catalan). This essay deals with the way Najat El Hachmi's constructs her own authorial voice in L'Ultim Patriarca (2008) as a female Moroccan migrant living in Catalonia. This article offers an integrated analysis of these issues by reference to psychoanalysis. The novel roots this experience in modern referents through a dialogue with the Catalan literary tradition, and questions the idea of temporality understood as succession of generations by problematizing biological reproduction and gender subordination and through the shattering effects of anal sexuality. Here the circular temporality, based on the repetition of cycles, of Morocco's traditional society comes to a halt in the failure of the narrator's father to reproduce patriarchal domination in Catalonia. Najat El Hachmi's novel "L'Ășltim patriarca" (2008) is an excellent example of these phenomena. The coexistence of asynchronous temporalities provoked by immigration is a factor in both cultural and psychic conflict. ![]() Temporality, in fact, is a key axis in the formation of identities and in cultural conflicts, not just regarding the uses of the past and the projection of societies towards the future, but also in relation to the normative uses of the body. Yet migrations are not only a matter of space (of demographic movements and geographical relocations), but also of time: immigration questions the idea of origins and the possibility of a shared future, and problematizes the rhythms of everyday life. Recent Catalan criticism has focused on place and space, as well as immigration, but has overlooked temporality. ![]()
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