Browse by author
Lookup NU author(s): Dr Ann Davies
Full text for this publication is not currently held within this repository. Alternative links are provided below where available.
This essay considers how the relationship between ETA terrorists, Basque national identity and Basque landscape is figured in Spanish cinema through the use of the rural road. It will explore the motif of the road as a sign of both transgression and exile from the Basque motherland implied by the landscape. Using examples from the films Dias contados and El viaje de Arian the paper argues that the road comes to signify the transgression of the individual terrorist against ETA and thus against the Basque Country for which ETA is fighting. These journeys of transgression become in the end journeys towards death: but the crisis in separatist commitment to the Basque Country is displaced on to the individual, leaving the link between ETA and the Basque landscape uncritiqued.
Author(s): Davies A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
Year: 2005
Volume: 82
Issue: 3
Pages: 343-355
ISSN (print): 1475-3839
ISSN (electronic): 1478-3398
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/bhs.82.3.5
DOI: 10.3828/bhs.82.3.5
Altmetrics provided by Altmetric