This book presents a fascinating and timely account of the consequences of the process of emigrating, as it relates to stress experienced by the emigrants. The stress that emigrants experienced is characterized as the "Ulysses Syndrom.
People familiar with the two languages generally have the impression that Basque and English could not be more different. While this may certainly be true in terms of their more superficial features, they are more similar than one might at first suspect in their internal structure. This book explores this apparent dichotomy.
The Tenacity of the Captains, Shipmasters, Merchants and Traders of Bilbao
by Margarita Serna Vallejo
ISBN: 9781949805451
Pub Date: 14 March 2022
Format: Paperback
110 Pages
The Consulate of Bilbao is a study framed between the peninsular consular histories, from the appearance of the first consulates in the Crown of Aragon during the late Middle Ages until the Bourbon reforms of the eighteenth century.
In 1950, a simple wedding toast highlights the bringing together of two Basque families, culminating and combining their immigrant stories and launching a new American tale. Three Wives' Tales provides a glimpse into the lives of Victoria, Eladia, and Annie, three formidable women who served as the backbone of their families in the American West. Victoria leaves her tiny village in Bizkaia to seek work and struggles to overcome her superstitions and Old Country ways. Eladia, cut off from her family for marrying a man beneath her social class, hesitates to embrace her new Nevada home. Optimistic Annie, whose marriage brings the two families together, does her best to fulfill the promise of American opportunity. Woven together as a work of historical fiction, the memoirs and family lore of these three Nevada women capture a journey of self-discovery filled with wisdom and strength that other Basque and immigrant families will recognize. Three...
Basque Women's Stories, Constructing Meaning from Memory
Edited by Larraitz Ariznabarreta and Nere Lete
ISBN: 9781949805338
Pub Date: 22 November 2021
Format: Paperback
300 Pages
Memory and Emotion: (Basque) Women’s Stories denounces the silence to which women —particularly those who withdraw from adopting a male-dominated discourse—have been subject. This is a collection about women whose stories were long silenced or disregarded: diasporic and exiled women, activists, militant scholars, avant-garde writers, and forerunners of women’s rights. The researchers and contributors to this volume have dared to remember and retell the stories of those women who blazed a trail through unchartered territory—women whose contributions have been overlooked and ignored. In that sense, each contribution to Memory and Emotion: (Basque) Women’s Stories could be deemed a metatextual process of memory construction— a process of meaning-making from past experiences, knowledge, and identity. The chapters focus on relevant questions such as: Does emotion help us remember? How do emotions affect the ability to recall memories? Does memory contribute to adaptation? Does restoring one’s self—individually and/or collectively—mean daring to remember? And is oblivion...
The Spanish flu pandemic was at least 20 times more lethal than COVID-19. This book critically reviews the 1918 flu pandemic, focusing on the Basque Country (France-Spain) and Western Europe. The unpredictable and anarchic behavior of that pandemic is a source of lessons to confront COVID-19 and future pandemics.
“In this engaging and original book, Nicolás Buckley draws on a unique body of oral history interviews with former armed activists in order to tell stories of ETA from inside. Locating these stories in the rapidly changing historical landscape of Spain during the late Franco and transition periods, the book challenges straightforward interpretations of the Basque independence movement as, alternatively, a ‘terrorist’ organization or victims of Spanish nationalism. Buckley combines historical analysis with refl ections on his own personal experiences as a young Spanish student growing up in Madrid in the post-Franco era, arguing for the importance of generation in presenting alternative accounts of ETA from the Spanish perspective, and presenting an intriguing account of the role of ETA and Basque nationalism in shaping contemporary Spanish and national identity and social imaginary. Weaving together history, memory, and self refl ection, this book makes a valuable contribution to the literature...
