Katixa Agirre y Los turistas desganados: las dos caras del País Vasco

Abstract

This article proposes a reading of Katixa Agirre’s (1981) work Atertu arte itxaron (2015), translated as Los turistas desganados (2017). The analysis will include two different aspects: first a consideration of the road-movie structure and then the work will be analyzed through the recuperation of the conflictive memory of violence in the Basque Country. The chapter situates the novel in the context of Katixa Agirre’s narrative work represented in two books of short stories, Sua falta zaigu (2007) and Habitat (2009), and the novel that follows the one in the present study, Amek ez dute (2018), translated as La madres no (2019). Furthermore, certain aspects related to the translation of the works will be studied.

Keywords:

• Katixa Agirre
• Atertu arte itxaron
• Los turistas desganados
• road movie
• Basque Country

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Notes on contributors

Jon Kortazar

Jon Kortazar is Professor of Basque Literature in the University of Basque Country since 1992. He is the head researcher of the LAIDA Consolidated Researching Group. This researching group has published a history of Basque Literature that has been translated to English: Contemporary Basque Literature (Reno, Nevada). Recently, he has coordinated the books Autonomía e Ideología. Tensiones en el Campo Cultural Vasco (2016), Bridge/Zubia. Imágenes de la relación cultural entre el País Vasco y Estados Unidos (2019) and the monographic works Harri eta Berri. Nuevos horizontes de la literatura vasca (2020) in the journal nsula y Escrituras vascas de mujer (2021) in the journal Rassegna Iberistica of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His works had been translated to many languages. He held the Koldo Mitxelena Chair at the University of Chicago in 2019.

Paloma Rodriguez-Miñambres

Paloma Rodríguez-Miñambres is Doctor of Psychodidactics at the University of Basque Country. She is a teacher at the Faculty of Education and Sports of the University of Basque Country. She is a member of the LAIDA (Literature and Identity) Consolidated Researching Group, which is part of the network of the Researching Groups of the Autonomous Basque Government and the University of Basque Country. Her research areas focus on the analysis of feminist writing in Basque Literature and the analysis of the reading matters and habits of Basque University students. In the area of literary creation, she has won the Ernestina Champourcin Poetry Award in Basque language in 2013, and the Blas de Otero Poetry Award in Basque language in 2018.