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- Title
Space, Identity, and Ocean Crossings in Uribe's Bilbao-New York-Bilbao.
- Authors
COLBERT GOICOA, DAVID
- Abstract
This article analyzes the implications of Kirmen Uribe's Bilbao-New York- Bilbao's use of transoceanic structuring and maritime imagery to explore Basque identity. Through ocean motifs, the novel addresses questions central to minority national identity in a period of accelerated globalization and declining national sovereignty: how peripheral territories can relate to other parts of the world without resorting to defensive nationalism and without suffering or exacerbating homogenization and new forms of inequality. This essay argues that Uribe's ocean reconciles openness and movement with stability and retention of difference, opposite tendencies that are explored also in the book's meditations on the identity-generating discourses of memory and narrative literature.
- Subjects
BILBAO-New York-Bilbao (Book); URIBE, Kirmen; IDENTITY (Philosophical concept) in literature; GROUP identity in literature; ETHNIC identity of Basques; BASQUE nationalism; EQUALITY in literature; MEMORY in literature
- Publication
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 2018, Vol 52, Issue 3, p787
- ISSN
0034-818X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/rvs.2018.0064