Learning to Think Otherness: Towards a Typology of World Views in Contemporary Basque Fiction

Mercero, Gorka ORCID: 0000-0003-3603-5849 (2016) Learning to Think Otherness: Towards a Typology of World Views in Contemporary Basque Fiction. BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES, 93 (10). pp. 1123-1139.

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Abstract

This article outlines a typology of the various world views that can be observed in contemporary Basque novels, analysing the stance adopted by authors on fundamental philosophical questions such as the nature of reality or the limits of human knowledge. The criteria to establish the taxonomy are those of reason and telos, which have been central to the debates developed in the last third of the twentieth century around the project of modernity and the response given to it by postmodernism. Thus the proposed typology delineates an evolution in contemporary Basque novels from essentialist representations of reality to non-essentialist ones. With regard to other recent taxonomies that follow diverse narratological criteria, the contention is that a classification according to world views gathers in a more coherent and significant way the noticeable heterogeneity that characterizes the subject area. Also, the evolution towards non-essentialist world views pointed out here converges with the thesis that Basque literature has entered a postnational stage, but it also suggests that thematic criteria should be discarded when it comes to identifying the most representative works of that stage.

Item Type:	Article
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	21 Dec 2018 08:22
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 01:08
DOI:	10.3828/bhs.2016.70
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3030306