XVII Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association

Between-Entre: Hybrid Identity and Belonging.

• In Event: Entre-Between Book: Six Brazilian Immigrant Women Tell their Stories

Abstract

Between-Entre: Hybrid Identity and Belonging

AUTHOR Regina Camargo

Being an immigrant is living between time zones, cultures, and languages. Being an immigrant is to inhabit a hybrid space neither fully “here” nor “there” but a space “in between,” a space where identity is negotiated. My presentation discusses how cultural identity shifts and expands during the lifespan of the immigrant. As an immigrant living in the United States and married to an Afro-German for many years, I have had to negotiate and code switch between different languages, cultures, and countries. My memoir essays in the bilingual book Entre-Between (Kotter Editorial, 2023) deal with loss, belonging and multiple culture identities. I will use the theoretical framework of Stuart Hall (Identity and Diaspora, 2019) and Silviano Santiago "Latin American Discourse: The Space In-Between" (Santiago, 1971) to support my ideas.

Author

• Regina Camargo, Independent Scholar/Researcher