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Basque Archive Feature: Nor-Nun And Boise State University's Special Collections And Archives
Basque Archive Feature: Nor-Nun And Boise State University's Special Collections And Archives
BOGA: Basque Studies Consortium Journal
This is the first in a series of features to draw attention to the micro and macro of Basque Studies research opportunities. The micro is a distinctive Basque source (e.g., photo, book, article, artifact) while the macro is a Basque archive where this source resides.
Basque Immigration In The United States, William A. Douglass
Basque Immigration In The United States, William A. Douglass
BOGA: Basque Studies Consortium Journal
This article was adapted from a talk presented at the Mugaz Gaindi Basque Studies Conference in New York City at Columbia University, as part of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the New York Basque Club. It provides a historical overview of the three phases of Basque emigration during the colonial, modern and post-modern eras generally, and within the context of the United States specifically. The article contrasts the immigrant experience of the Basques of the rural American West with the urban, cosmopolitan experience of the New York Basques, as it probes the recent transformation or cultural watershed …
External Projection Of The Basque Language And Culture: The Etxepare Basque Institute And A Range Of Public Paradiplomacy, Sho Hagio
BOGA: Basque Studies Consortium Journal
This study discusses the establishment of the Etxepare Basque Institute in 2007 as a way of investigating the status of the Basque language Euskara, which was once looked down on and labeled as a lesser-used minority language, but which is now coming into greater prominence in the international arena in an era of globalization. The mission of the institute is external projection of Basque language and culture. Such projection, on one hand, presupposes the existence of a standardized language and culture to be diffused and that there is a distinction to be made between “interior” and “exterior” on the other. …
Borges And The Basques: Notes On Reading An Invisible Literature, David Laraway
Borges And The Basques: Notes On Reading An Invisible Literature, David Laraway
BOGA: Basque Studies Consortium Journal
Critics and readers sometimes unnecessarily limit the scope of what is to be counted as “Basque literature” to texts originally composed in Euskera. In the present study I argue for a hermeneutics of Basque literature that does not seek to identify Basque literature by means of the language of composition, theme, or any particular biographical information about the author. Taking the work of Jorge Luis Borges as a touchstone—and , in particular, his canonical short story, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”—I sketch a strategy for reading Basque literature from a minimalist perspective that takes the identity of a …
Basque Scholar Feature: William A. Douglass, Ph.D.
Basque Scholar Feature: William A. Douglass, Ph.D.
BOGA: Basque Studies Consortium Journal
This is the first in a series of profiles of Basque scholars. Oftentimes scholars in general, and Basque scholars specifically, toil in seclusion and general anonymity; so this is an effort to introduce the scholar and their work to a larger audience.