minority literatures in the global scene Olaziregi, Mari Jose. text nvu Reno Center for Basque Studies/University of Nevada 2009 monographic eng

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313 p. 25 cm. "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. 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. edited by Mari Jose Olaziregi. Includes index. Basque literature History and criticism Postcolonialism in literature Ethnology in literature Nationalism and literature Literature and globalization Basque language History PH5281 .W75 2009 899.9209 W9561 9781877802904 (hardcover) 2009042046 DLC 091006 20160527203014.0 294880