Document Type
Article
Abstract
This article analyzes how a small, conservative city in provincial Mexico uses foreign languages as a partial strategy to map desire and transgression. Drawing on the concept of projective identification and referencing work on the psychoanalytic affects of multilingualism, I examine several other-language texts in the public domain to show how foreign languages create spaces for transgression and the expression of desire. The article speaks to the specificity of multilingualism’s affects and psychic uses in different sites, emphasizing in particular the unique way this plays out in a small city versus a more traditionally defined “global city.”
Repository Citation
Rodríguez, Karen. "Mapping Desire and Transgression Through Other Languages: Sex and the (Occasionally Multilingual) Provincial City." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 11, no. 1, 2011, pp. 1–25. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol11/iss1/5