ABSTRACT
Guillermina Mekuy, Trifonia Melibea Obono, and O’sírima Mota Ripeu are a part of a new generation of Equatoguinean authors who are directly engaging with themes of sex and identity in their works. All born after 1980, this younger generation of authors is producing texts that differ in theme and focus from the previous generation of Equatoguinean authors such as Donato Ndongo Bidyogo, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, or Justo Bolekia Boleká. Mekuy, Melibea Obono, and Mota Ripeu are creating provocative literary works that cross generic lines and ignore distinctions between high and low art. Their works evince a new approach to sexuality and identity in the diaspora. Through a consideration of Mekuy’s Las tres vírgenes de Santo Tomás (2008), Melibea Obono’s La bastarda (2016) and Las mujeres hablan mucho y mal (2018), and Mota Ripeu’s El punto ciego de Cassandra (2017), this chapter compares the strategies that these three authors use to write about sex, sexuality, and identity in the diaspora space. Drawing on Foucault’s work on sexuality and Avtar Brah and Fataneh Farahani’s examinations of diaspora space, diaspora and sexuality, this work analyzes the power dynamics on display in these literary products of the Equatoguinean diaspora in Spain.