HYBRIDA

The ninth issue of HYBRIDA is especially dense and interesting. The Dossier entitled ‘LISIÈRE/S’, carefully coordinated by Estel Aguilar Miró, Josep Marqués Meseguer and Marina Hernández Royo of the University of Zaragoza, who have done a brilliant job of editing and written a fine introduction presenting the ecopoetic and geocritical approaches, as well as the concept of transgression in the broadest sense, is made up of six research articles, including one from the Ivory Coast, two from Spain, two from France and one from Switzerland. Bertrand Wespthal, drawing on authors such as María Zambrano and Michel Tournier, has written an excellent ‘theoretical’ article on the notion of the ‘edge’, using the metaphor of the ‘ajar door’ and opening the door to intercultural dialogue. The works of Emmanuel Carrère, Violette Leduc, Pauline Delabroy-Allard and Léonora Miano are also examined from the perspective of migration studies, gender studies, feminist studies and ecological studies. The life of the painter Caravaggio in contemporary fiction will also be explored in an original way. In the Mosaic section, we are publishing an article from Cameroon on cultural hybridity and multilingualism in the work of Djaïli Amadou Amal. In the Traces section, we publish ‘Silence in the Darkness’, containing a short explanatory text and photographs by Alexandre Melay exploring the marginal ‘natural’ spaces of the urban periphery.