This article attempts to distinguish between national ideologies and the ideological strategies characterizing literatures that accompany the creation of nation-states, and real or imaginary displacements within the artist's works which produce a variety of intertextual and extraterritorial modes or transpositions, engaging the reader in the quest for roots, traces and references within one or several texts. Literature is viewed here as a territory "in the making" which allows for the emergence of significant relations depending on the nature of reception. From the perspective of transnational and transoceanic exchanges, in the context of present-day globalization with its massive migrations, numerous exiles and other forms of passage, we would like to make a contribution to the reflections on the critical posture of the relational by taking into account these various modes of crossing, translation and multiple relations, both in the social and in the artistic fields.
Traces; Intertexts; Critical posture of the relational; Migrations and fluctuating boundaries of literature; Darwin; Borges; Tomás de Mattos