Relatar desde el margen: género, identidad sexual e infancia en la literatura acerca del conflicto vasco [Narrate from the margin: gender, sexual identity and childhood on literature about the Basque Conflict]

Abstract

The Basque conflict has crossed contemporary Basque literature in a radical way, not only as a literary topic. From 1976 to 2000, the novel in Basque, with few exceptions, has portrayed the conflict through hegemonic masculinities, which were identified positively or negatively with ETA. From 2000 onwards, however, basque novels have become increasingly polyphonic. The three novels analyzed in this article are examples of this new way of telling: in them, the core of the novel is not ETA or its actions, but slips to other margins. Thus, women (Lagun izoztua/‘The frozen friend’), non-heteronormative sexual identities (Ezinezko maletak/‘Impossible suitcases’) and children and adolescents (Gerra txikia/‘The little war’) become part of  the narrative of the conflict.