Marta Segarra's Comunidades con acento (Icaria, 2021) gathers eight essays which constitute a personal tour around a specific conception of community through the analysis of literary, philosophical, filmic and artistic texts. Far from its traditional definition based on homogeneity and fusional adherence to a group, communities are in Segarra's work formed by diverse and irreductible singularities, so that a certain distance is preserved between the subjects which make it. The image of the accent thus serves to characterize this notion of community based on distance rather than proximity, difference rather than equality in identitarian terms. This book proposes a reflection on issues such as memory, colonialism, nation, as well as the invisibility and stigma that bear such communities as the Roma, not leaving aside the link between community and desire, new forms of parenting, the posthuman, and the fronteres between the human and the animal communities. Among others, Segarra dialogues with Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Maria-Mercè Marçal and Virginie Despentes.
