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SCARANO, Laura. El Español Transatlántico: dilemas de un archipiélago con múltiples orillas. CELEHIS [online]. 2023, n.45, pp.5-5. ISSN 2313-9463.

With the expression "transatlantic Spanish" we point to a node of convergences and transits of writings that dialogue in Spanish on both sides of the ocean, configuring an archipelago of multiple shores. The metaphor is operative because it reflects multicultural societies, where the native/foreign status converge, represented by nomadic authors, cosmopolitan, migrant, interested in a global reader not necessarily neighbor or connational. With a pan-Hispanic vocation, the common language is no longer an imposed formality that covers up radical diversity, but a starting point to strengthen a dialogical exchange, which respects regional and historical variations, but functions as a connector.. Recognize that Spanish as a mediating language does not ignore regionalisms or territorial and autonomous dialects. Accepting this undisputed reality of millions of people who think, speak and write in a common language, which communicates and represents us, without repeating black legends of the past, does not seem to me a gesture of surrender but of pure common sense. The objective in this global era is integration without marginalization, based on shared consensus and policies of languages respectful of diversity, dissolving the anachronisms of the term tied to an already anachronic tradition, to relocate its textual family inside new critical paradigms.

Palavras-chave : Spanish; Transatlantic; Literature; Language; Globalization.