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Writers in between languages : minority literatures in the global scene / edited by Mari Jose Olaziregi.

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Writers in between languages : minority literatures in the global scene / edited by Mari Jose Olaziregi.
Publication
Reno : Center for Basque Studies/University of Nevada, 2009.

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Olaziregi, Mari Jose
Description
313 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
"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.
Series Statement
Center for Basque studies conference papers series ; no. 5
Uniform Title
Center for Basque Studies conference papers series ; no. 5.
Subject
  • Basque language > History
  • Basque literature > History and criticism
  • Ethnology in literature
  • Literature and globalization
  • Nationalism and literature
  • Postcolonialism in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Creation (writers): writing in Basque in a global space from the periphery -- I do not know who 'I' is -- The cork and the anchor -- Identity, language, creation (an autobiographical vision) -- Five reasons for writing in the language of -- The neighborhood -- Eight crucial decisions (a Basque writer is obliged to face) -- Re-creation (academics):On the lightness of being: the conflict of belonging in Basque literature -- The astigmatic vision and the perception of minority literatures -- Charting national identities: the excursion mode -- Critical Basque studies: a place for literature in postnationalist identity -- Josep Pla: localism, or a complete way of viewing the world -- Post-hispanism, or the long goodbye of national philology -- On visible and invisible languages:Bernardo Atxaga's Soinujolearen semea in translation -- Memory, past, and writing in the global scene: Bernardo Atxaga's El hijo del acordeonista and Carme Riera's La mitad del alma -- Exile, dissemination, and homogenization:the case of equatorial guinea as the space of a minority literature -- Salvador Espriu and the Marrano home of language.
ISBN
  • 9781877802904 (hardcover)
  • 1877802905 (hardcover)
LCCN
^^2009042046
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library