A partir de la lectura del poema Synesthesia (2016) de Mahtem Shiferraw,
en el que la autora etíope realiza un recorrido sinestésico por el imaginario de su
infancia a través de un particular espectro cromático, hemos recogido las emociones
generadas y los referentes a los que remiten esas gamas cromáticas con la
recopilación de textos testimoniales. Nuestro corpus está constituido por un
compendio de textos producidos por seis mujeres afrodescendientes en la diáspora
cuyo destino final en su itinerario migratorio ha sido Londres. El objetivo central es
acercaremos al entramado de emociones individuales que emergen de sus
testimonios, para identificar aquellas representaciones recurrentes que vinculan
imaginarios a pesar de la distancia lingüística y cultural. Los resultados apuntan a un
claro contraste emocional entre el aquí y el allí, a una vivencia en colectivo y fruto
de la interacción de esas emociones, y a una construcción identitaria híbrida en el
seno de la red de afectos como anclaje con la comunidad de origen.
Based on the reading of the poem Synesthesia (2016) by Mahtem
Shiferraw, in which the Ethiopian author takes a synaesthetic journey through
the imaginary of her childhood by means of a particular chromatic spectrum, we
have collected the emotions generated and the references to which these
chromatic ranges refer with the compilation of testimonial texts. Our corpus is
made up of a compendium of texts produced by six women of African descent
in the diaspora whose final destination in their migratory itinerary has been
London. The central objective is to approach the web of individual emotions that
emerge from their testimonies, in order to identify those recurrent
representations that link imaginaries despite the linguistic and cultural distance.
The results point to a clear emotional contrast between here and there, to a
collective experience resulting from the interaction of these emotions, and to a
hybrid construction of identity within the network of affections as an anchorage
with the community of origin.
