Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature Volume 45 Issue 1 Article 9 December 2020 Reaching Out: The Basque Transnational Body in the Poetry of Kirmen Uribe Enrique Álvarez Florida State University,
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[email protected]. Reaching Out: The Basque Transnational Body in the Poetry of Kirmen Uribe Abstract In this paper we explore the contribution of Kirmen Uribe, a Basque writer, artist and cultural activist, to the process of political reconciliation in the Basque country, a socially transforming compromise brought about by the dissolution of the Basque terrorist organization ETA in October 20th, 2011. Uribe achieved literary recognition and public notoriety within the Iberian cultural landscape with the publication of his novel Bilbao-New York-Bilbao in 2008, for which he received the Spanish National Literature Prize for Narrative in the following year.