The in-between of the ex-appropriation: dispossession and property in false scriptures

Abstract

This essay begins in a punctuation mark; the hyphen put by Jacques Derrida in the spelling of ex-appropriation. The quasi-concept of ex-appropriation operates by demonstrating the paradox of ownership that exists in the exercise of cross-cultural language. Starting from the aporia that moves that essay, we move our research on practices of appropriation, copying and imitation in contemporary textualities. In this text, conceptual and exploratory, we propose a study of ex-appropriation as the logic of these (re)scriptures. In the glow of its hyphen, we seek to understand the undecidability of this transnational place of speech also with the idea of the in-between, as elaborated by Silviano Santiago. In order to question this problem in a localized way, understanding that it only occurs in scripture, we start by presenting and debating two experiences of this between First, the Gloria Anzáldua's Borderlands/La Frontera, a book written in English crossed by Mexican border dialects, discussing the migrant's experience. Similarly, we also call the poetics of Édouard Glissant (2005): his studies on how the economic regime of barter in the Caribbean creates a culture of precarious exchange, origin of Creole languages. By reading the signs emitted by these bifid languages, the essay will conclude the productivity of focusing on the problem of postnational texts and transits by the proprietary bias. It is inferred how the notions of ex-apropriation and in-between raise this aspect, and allow reading cross-cultural poetic texts by such a key - leading to an understanding of appropriation and imitation as movements of a robbery that opens the precarious performance of possession.