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Why Little Darling
In 1979, when Arantxa Urretabizkaia's Why Little Darling was published, a wave of positive surprise spread throughout our land. The first edition was 63-pages long, and Hordago published it. On those pages, for the first time (because we had never read anything like this before), we could read the story of a woman who had been abandoned by her husband. It is worth mentioning that up until that point, the field of Basque literature had been cultivated mostly by men-men and priests-with the the efforts of Jon Mirande (1925-1972) as the only exception.The narrator has a little son, whom she calls her little darling, as a practically mute interlocutor, and she hopes that somehow her husband will return. She speaks from the doorway of feminism, separating the roles of women and men. This is a modern voice. Her hopes won't come true and her destiny will be to be alone, represented by the proximity of the cold winter. It is a beautiful novella, simple, bare, straightforward, easily readable, and it leaves a taste of real life in your mouth. It is a must, indeed, a cornerstone of Basque literature!
A New History of Iberian Feminisms
A New History of Iberian Feminisms is both a chronological history and an analytical discussion of feminist thought in the Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal, and the territories of Spain - the Basque Provinces, Catalonia, and Galicia - from the eighteenth century to the present day. The Iberian Peninsula encompasses a dynamic and fraught history of feminism that had to contend with entrenched tradition and a dominant Catholic Church. Editors Silvia Bermúdez and Roberta Johnson and their contributors reveal the long and historical struggles of women living within various parts of the Iberian Peninsula to achieve full citizenship. A New History of Iberian Feminisms comprises a great deal of new scholarship, including nineteenth-century essays written by women on the topic of equality. By addressing these lost texts of feminist thought, Bermúdez, Johnson, and their contributors reveal that female equality, considered a dormant topic in the early nineteenth century, was very much part of the political conversation, and helped to launch the new feminist wave in the second half of the century.
New Perspectives on James Joyce
New Perspectives on James Joyce Ignatius Loyola, make haste to help me! gathers a selection of papers delivered at the 20th Conference of the James Joyce Spanish Society. The book includes studies on relevant issues still raised by Joyce’s work, such as Joyce’s handling of time and memory, Joyce and the Jesuits, Joyce and literary connections, Joyce in translation, new eco-critical readings of Joyce’s work, Joyce in the light of textual linguistics or how to render Joyce more accessible.
Before Babel
Before Babel: A History of Basque Literatures is the first book written originally in English and directed towards a global audience. It is also a new departure from traditional literary histories, as it is not a philological tedious classification of centuries, authors, genres, and books published in Basque. This book addresses the historical conflict and violence that define Basque history and culture, and so it defines Basque literary history as that of at least two literatures: one expressed by Basque subaltern (oppressed) classes in their language, euskara, which mainly constitutes an oral tradition, and the other written by Basque elites in Spanish, Latin, French, etc. The book emphasi...
The Red Notebook
"The Red Notebook belongs to the autobiographical genre and the novel-writing tradition that deals with the female voice and memory. This novel breaks new ground from a physical and psychological point of view, bringing out the social and political aspects of motherhood"--Provided by publisher.
Collapse, Catastrophe and Rediscovery
After nearly forty years of dictatorship and an abrupt transition to democracy in the twentieth century, Spain is now in a moment of great rediscovery. The Peninsular country’s precarious past, paired with its current situation of economic crisis (currently Spain has one of the highest unemployment rates in the Eurozone) and movements to recover languages, literatures and cultures other than Spanish, creates a country where artists, authors and directors are exploring existential and social issues in new and revitalized ways. The chapters included in Collapse, Catastrophe, and Rediscovery: Spain’s Cultural Panorama in the Twenty First Century explore filmic, literary and cultural represe...
Basques, Today
Ramón Zallo offers us with this informative book an overall synthesis of Basque culture, society and history. Thanks to its contents it may be destined to become a road map for understanding some keys about the country of the Basques. The author starts from a broad concept of Basque culture which, while it is not very well known, is proportionally very rich for such a small country. He conceives it as a whole culture and as having a history of its own, although it is very closely related to its surroundings. And its trajectory indicates the need to prioritize its development and singularity in this global world full of uncertainty. In Part One he traces (and vindicates) the cultural and spa...
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
The most important poetry reference for more than four decades—now fully updated for the twenty-first century Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated for the twenty-first century. Compiled by an entirely new team of editors, the fourth edition—the first new edition in almost twenty years—reflects recent changes in literary and cultu...
Zortzi unibertso
ANA URKIZAri, euskal literatura, normaltasun eta modernotasun itxura eman nahi duen sistema oraindik heldu gabea dela iruditzen zaio, barruan harra bizi duen sagar berde erakargarria bezalakoxea. Hori dela eta, zortzi idazle elkarrizketatu ditu, ARANTXA URRETABIZKAIA, MARIASUN LANDA, AURELIA ARKOTXA, LAURA MINTEGI, LOURDES OÑEDERRA, ITXARO BORDA, MIREN AGUR MEABE eta YOLANDA ARRIETA, bi helburu nagusirekin: egungo euskal literaturaren kanonean sartzekoak diren emakumezko idazleak badaudela jakitera ematea, eta euskal literaturaren kanonaren inguruan egonezina sorraraztea, ohikoak diren galderei ahotsa jarriz. Ana Urkizak maisuki paratutako grabagailuaren aurrean idazle elkarrizketatuak bilu...
The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature: A-M
"Spanish literature includes some of the world's greatest works and authors. It is also one of the most widely studied. This reference looks at the literature of Spain from the perspective of women's studies. Though the volume focuses on the literature of Spain written in Castilian, it also includes survey entries on the present state of women's literature in Catalan, Galician, and Basque. Included are hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries for numerous topics related to Spanish literature, including literary periods and genres, significant characters and character types, major authors and works, and various specialized topics. Each entry discusses how the topic relates to women's studies. Entries for male authors discuss their attitudes toward women. Female writers are considered for the restrictive cultural contexts in which they wrote. Specific works are examined for their representations of female characters and their handling of women's issues. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and closes with a brief bibliography. The volume concludes with a list of works for further reading."--Back cover.
