Entre inseguridad y nomadismo: la maleta como símbolo y objeto de globalización

The suitcase is a defining object of contemporary aeromobility which refers simultaneously to several aspects of the globalized world (connectivity,nomadism, fluidity) and to their contradictions (risk factors, rigid security measures). Taking Appadurai’s and Latour’s theses as a starting point, we will analyse the role of the suitcase through an international corpus of films and recent literary texts (Benítez Reyes, Bradford, Fresán, Fuguet, Gamboa, Halfon, Muñoz Molina, Neuman, Pamuk, Serrano Larraz, Tesich), considering the ontological, symbolic and poetic value of this “almost-object” for our material culture.