Location
Stewart Center 310
Session Number
Session 13: BASQUE TERRORISM IN RECENT FILM AND FICTION
Start Date
9-9-2011 1:30 PM
End Date
9-9-2011 3:00 PM
Abstract
This paper examines the recent evolution of fiction in and about the Basque Country. I focus on depictions of the victims of ETA’s violence, and literature that documents their plight in the genres of the novel and short story. One trend is the movement away from “terrorist” and toward “victim” as the narrative focus. Another is an art increasingly in service to a political agenda. Although much of this corpus focuses on everyday details richer than those found in the mass media, social-scientific literature, or victim testimony, these forms often blur in their rhetorical styles.
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Comparative Politics Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons, Spanish Literature Commons
Writing Victims: Post-Terrorist Fiction(s) in the Basque Country and Spain
Stewart Center 310
This paper examines the recent evolution of fiction in and about the Basque Country. I focus on depictions of the victims of ETA’s violence, and literature that documents their plight in the genres of the novel and short story. One trend is the movement away from “terrorist” and toward “victim” as the narrative focus. Another is an art increasingly in service to a political agenda. Although much of this corpus focuses on everyday details richer than those found in the mass media, social-scientific literature, or victim testimony, these forms often blur in their rhetorical styles.
Comments
Keywords: Basques, Spain, Terrorism, Literature