Abstract
This article discusses how economic, political and social changes linked to postmodernism have caused a transformation in the subject’s identity in recent Basque narrative. It shows the appearance a new type of postmodern characters. Postmodernity offers a set of tools to analyse the concept of identity and its alteration in narrative, in an attempt to make a global description of current society and postmodernism as a framework in which artistic creations are materialised. This research delves into the postmodern subject in the Basque literary context. Results obtained attest that an identity crisis experienced by main characters corresponds to an identity imbalance that postmodernity generates in Western culture, resulting in a multiple and transitory identity.
Highlights
This article discusses how economic, political and social changes linked to postmodernism have caused a transformation in the subject’s identity in recent Basque narrative
Postmodernity offers a set of tools to analyse the concept of identity and its alteration in narrative, in an attempt to make a global description of current society and postmodernism as a framework in which artistic creations are materialised
Results obtained attest that an identity crisis experienced by main characters corresponds to an identity imbalance that postmodernity generates in Western culture, resulting in a multiple and transitory identity
Summary
Las discusiones establecidas en torno a la postmodernidad y el postmodernismo y las transformaciones acaecidas en el marco social, político y económico han sido de gran relevancia en el contexto de la literatura vasca. Nos referiremos a la influencia que dichos cambios han tenido sobre las creaciones literarias, entendidas éstas como expresiones culturales de la época junto a los demás componentes del sistema. Es posible especificar los perfiles más relevantes del sujeto literario postmoderno centrándonos en la semiología del personaje narrativo, porque entendemos la literatura como mecanismo de representación y el personaje de ficción o protagonista de la obra poseedor de un valor semiótico y una significación que le capacita a la hora de establecer un mensaje (De Lauretis 2000). Hablar de postmodernismo dentro del contexto literario vasco se entiende a menudo como una amenaza desestabilizadora del sistema establecido; consideración que nos lleva a mencionar el sesgo ideológico de las creaciones artísticas (Said 2008; 2010) y la importancia de la literatura en la cohesión socio-cultural y en la construcción del concepto de nación. Los sujetos protagonistas de algunas de las obras del escritor Harkaitz Cano y las escritoras Ixiar Rozas y Eider Rodriguez son claros ejemplos de la mencionada heterogeneidad postmoderna
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