Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften Affective Landscapes: Representations of Terrorism and Violence by Basque Female Authors

Affective Landscapes: Representation of Terrorism and Violence by Basque Female Authors draws from contemporary social and cultural theory of affect to analyze the Basque Country's political violence since the birth of the terrorist organization E.T.A. The study focuses on how this violence has been represented in contemporary works of literature and cinema authored by women and examines the alternative means these authors use to examine political violence from a gendered perspective. The artistic works analyzed in this volume highlight the connection between violence and the production of specific affective states; these authors' stories illustrate the pernicious effects that violence has for human relationality and social bonds. As such, the study provides new readings of seminal works authored by Basque women during this period of violence and, in doing so, it renders a much-needed contribution to the place that their artistic productions have in providing a novel understanding of the Basque political reality. The study presents a groundbreaking analysis to understand the centrality of affect as a unique prism to approach violent contexts, to present different affirmations of the "political," and to bring to light social dynamics otherwise unnoticed. Review "Cinema and literature are spaces where the memory of the violence experienced in the Basque Country can be elaborated upon; works of art can open the collective debate about all the things that we still do not understand: the pain of the victims, our complacent silence as a society, the permeability of violence in every aspect of life. This study analyzes some of our attempts to grapple with that past and it does so by presenting a double theoretical gaze--affect and gender theories--that illuminates with perspicacity the issues. The authors position us in front of a new genealogy of female artists who have represented violence in their works."--Edurne Portela, Writer and Critic "Fierce, thorough and vital, these analyses of representations of violence in the Basque Country from a gender perspective deploy critical frameworks that combine visual and literary analysis with contemporary political theory in order to investigate and often overturn our understanding of the impact of violence on our memory and on our relationship with the past."--Rob Stone, Professor of Film Studies, University of Birmingham, UK "In a masterly fashion, this study brings to the reader the emotional cartography of decades of violence in the Basque Country. Using the cultural narratives of contemporary Basque artists, these scholars present an undoubtedly novel and necessary contribution to the history and critical interpretation of the emotions that the violence elicited. The analysis of emotions as cultural practices reveals their social function and the role they played in the socialization process in a convulsed Basque society."--Mari Jose Olaziregi, Professor, University of Basque Country "This book is an indispensable contribution to the body of studies about the artistic representations of violence in Euskadi. It explores unprecedented aspects of that political context and provides an analysis centered on affects and emotions."--Helena Taberna, Filmmaker "This is a passionate and rigorous study that, through the lens of gender, expands the analysis of artistic representations of terrorist violence. This book fulfils an essential need to understand how terrorism in the Basque Country was embedded in daily life, in everyday gestures, and in the most intimate emotions. It is of that violent presence that colonized our daily lives that the works analyzed by María Pilar Rodriguez and Cristina Ortiz Ceberio speak."--Luisa Etxenike, Writer About the Author Cristina Ortiz Ceberio (PhD, University of Cincinnati) is a Professor of Humanities and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where she coordinates the Spanish and Latin American Studies pro