Writers In Between Languages: Minority Languages in the Global Scene
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Authors
Arcocha, Aurelia
Olaziregi, Mari J.
Diaz de Heredia, Rikardo A.
Atxaga, Bernardo
Landa, Mariasun
Meabe, Miren A.
Zaldua, Iban
Arruti, Nerea
Delgado, Elena
Cifuentes, Luis F.
Issue Date
2009
Type
Book
Language
Keywords
Basque Culture , Basque Literature , Minority Languages
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Abstract
Th book debates the consequences implied by linguistic extra-territorialization for many authors in a minority language, the realignment implied by the hegemony of English for all other literatures, and the options open to a minority author to get their voice heard.
Description
One could say that practically all the current 800,000 Basque-speakers or euskaldunak who live on both sides of the Pyrenees in Spain and France are bilingual. And that this bilingualism is formed in conjunction with such widely spoken languages as Spanish and such prestigious languages in literary circles as French; languages that, in turn, have been displaced by the enormously central and legitimizing place that English occupies in the current global framework. The symposium attempted, moreover, to debate the consequences implied by linguistic extra-territorialization for many authors in a minority language, the realignment implied by the hegemony of English for all other literatures, and the options open to a minority author to get their voice heard in the World Republic of Letters. Together with the above themes, certain aspects of the academic study of a minority literature such as that of Basque completed the list of subjects we intended to examine.