Challenging the national border system through love in César Mba A. Abogo’s “The Thickness of the Night” and Lien Carrazana’s “An Expatriate Waitress, Anywhere in the World”

The short stories “En la espesura de noche” (2010) and “Una camarera (expatriada a cualquier lugar del mundo)” (2011) depict the feeling of imprisonment that first-person narrators experience within rigid borders Equatorial Guinea Cuba, respectively, how they overcome this territorial oppression by loving woman who dwells beyond national are unable to trespass. Bearing in mind love towards nation-states constitutes way perpetuating nationalist ideology reinforcement over individual free agency (Morrison et al., 2021: 514), article examines how, both narratives, exaltation transnational nation challenges these nation-state’s “unique discourse,” based on binary border thinking inside/outside us/them, favor more understanding world.