La hojarasca vasca: Paralelismos históricopolíticos entre Gabriel García Márquez y Sabino Arana Goiri
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Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Lejona, España
ISSN: 1988-0618
Année de publication: 2019
Volumen: 13
Número: 2
Pages: 17-42
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: REIB: Revista Electrónica Iberoamericana
Résumé
The comparison between the Colombian Nobel prize winner, especially via his works La hojarasca and Cien años de soledad, and the founder of Basque nationalism, Sabino Arana Goiri, produces a surprising result. In the case of the latter, a Basque identity is constructed as a consequence of rejection of the Spanish identity represented by the mass immigration to the Basque Country in the late-19th and mid-20th centuries. In the case of García Márquez, it is the identity of the Colombian Caribbean that is constructed, also a rejection of the immigrants that arrive to work on the banana plantations – the leaf storm. Evidence that the construction of a collective identity may acquire a dimension that is both political and cultural: it serves to construct both a nationalist movement and a literary work of universal appeal.