By Luis Martin-Estudillo, Nicholas Spadaccini
This quantity, inclusive of essays on Catalonia, the Basque state, Galicia, and literature written by way of African immigrants, makes a speciality of problems with "difference" which are on the heart of present debates in Spain and elsewhere--the emergence of minoritized literatures, multilingualism and id, new relationships among tradition and associations, the negotiation of historic thoughts, the connections among migrations and the redefinition of nationhood, and the effect of worldwide developments on neighborhood symbolic structures.
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Between these two points in time, there were 400 years of a literary history domi� nated by pastoral works, a literature led by religious men who, after the Council of Trent, taught the couplet euskaldun = fededun (Basque speaker = believer), which had a strong influence on all literary production until the end of the nineteenth century. Clearly, there were extra-literary factors involved in the creation of the body of work in the Basque language. This body of work lacked the most basic infrastructure necessary to establish itself as a developed literary system due to several barriers, such as the difficulty of publishing in Basque (until 1700, three of every four Basque books were published outside of the Basque Country, and there was a notable book, Peru Abarka, that took decades before it was finally published in 1880), prohibitions on publishing, and a certain number of lost publications.
47–48) 22 ENRIC BOU The case of Armenia provides us with superb and dreadful examples of maps and borders created and used by insatiable human greed, at the service of controlling the Other. In this case, the map is used as a planning tool for wars of invasion, for domination of close-by territory with military purposes. It reminds us vividly of some meanings of Iberian Peninsula maps discussed earlier. In fact, those maps are a very graphic way of representing disparate models of identity, which has been an unvarying issue in Spain from the beginning of modernity.