Exile as a Site for Enunciation in Sarrionandia’s Work: Silence and Searching in Contrapuntist Writing

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Nerea Eizagirre-Telleria

This article reflects on the paradoxical conceptualization of exile according to Said, and it expands the analysis with reflections by Joseba Sarrionandia. Throughout Sarrionandia´s oeuvre, there is an intellectual journey toward the ontological position of exile. Silence and the searching for a new language are two transitions of the sarrionandian journey, reaching the creation of a writing style capable of expressing the marginal and dissident perspective of exile as a paradigm. The last part of the article focuses on the essay Moroak gara behelaino artean?, in order to understand the main characteristic of Sarrionandia’s contrapuntist writing style.

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Sarrionandia, exile, Said, counterpoint, postcolonial, estrangement

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Eizagirre-Telleria, Nerea. “Exile as a Site for Enunciation in Sarrionandia’s Work: Silence and Searching in Contrapuntist Writing”. 452ºF: revista de teoría de la literatura y literatura comparada, 2022, no. 26, pp. 44-62, https://raco.cat/index.php/452F/article/view/396512.