Writers in between languages
Subtitle: minority literatures in the global scene
By: edited by Mari Jose Olaziregi.
Contributors: Olaziregi, Mari Jose.
Publisher: Center for Basque Studies/University of Nevada
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Reno
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781877802904
Subjects: Basque literature -- History and criticism; Basque language -- History; Literature and globalization; Nationalism and literature; Ethnology in literature; Postcolonialism in literature
Description: "Collection of articles by Basque writers and American and European academics on the globalization of literature, postcolonialism, and new ethnic landscapes. Also treats topics such as center and periphery dualities, subaltern identities, so-called borderlands thought, and the effect of Creoleness"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Creation (writers): writing in Basque in a global space from the periphery; title: I do not know who 'I' is; title: The cork and the anchor; title: Identity, language, creation (an autobiographical vision); title: Five reasons for writing in the language of; title: The neighborhood; title: Eight crucial decisions (a Basque writer is obliged to face); title: Re-creation (academics):On the lightness of being: the conflict of belonging in Basque literature; title: The astigmatic vision and the perception of minority literatures; title: Charting national identities: the excursion mode; title: Critical Basque studies: a place for literature in postnationalist identity; title: Josep Pla: localism, or a complete way of viewing the world; title: Post-hispanism, or the long goodbye of national philology; title: On visible and invisible languages:Bernardo Atxaga's Soinujolearen semea in translation; title: Memory, past, and writing in the global scene: Bernardo Atxaga's El hijo del acordeonista and Carme Riera's La mitad del alma; title: Exile, dissemination, and homogenization:the case of equatorial guinea as the space of a minority literature; title: Salvador Espriu and the Marrano home of language.