Here the circular temporality, based on the repetition of cycles, of Morocco's traditional society comes to a halt in the failure of the narrator's father to reproduce patriarchal domination in Catalonia. Najat El Hachmi's novel "L'Ășltim patriarca" (2008) is an excellent example of these phenomena. The coexistence of asynchronous temporalities provoked by immigration is a factor in both cultural and psychic conflict. Temporality, in fact, is a key axis in the formation of identities and in cultural conflicts, not just regarding the uses of the past and the projection of societies towards the future, but also in relation to the normative uses of the body. Yet migrations are not only a matter of space (of demographic movements and geographical relocations), but also of time: immigration questions the idea of origins and the possibility of a shared future, and problematizes the rhythms of everyday life. Recent Catalan criticism has focused on place and space, as well as immigration, but has overlooked temporality.
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