This paper aims investigating the concept of nation and identity which are characterized to the postcolonial writers in lingering displacement condition, through their work, and how these questions are generated by cultural encounters which happen in two levels - the real ambit and the transcendent one. To make it, there was the selection of the theoretical material. Beyond the mentioned bibliographic material, this research has also a corpus of two works called If today be sweet, by Thrity Umrigar, and another called De olho nas penas, by Ana Maria Machado. In this sense, the current work has been structured as following: in the introduction, the theme is delimited and the motivation to this study is explained; in chapter two a brief historical route connecting Latin American to India is built through the imaginary of the discoveries and other subaltern conditions in regard to the European center; in chapter three some theories regarded to the identity and the nation problematic is shown, since the colonial period until the postcolonial period, contemplates its characteristic phenomenon – the lingering displacement from the original land; in chapter four some theories regarded to the mystic studies and culture are provided, showing the postcolonial questions studied in the previous chapter, however, in a transcendent level; the fifth chapter refers to the analysis of the work If today be sweet; chapter six, consists of the analysis of the work De olho nas penas; and, finally, the chapter seven presents the conclusions achieved with this study.