TY - JOUR

T1 - "Disability and Post-ETA Poetics"

AU - Miguelez-Carballeira, Helena

PY - 2023/12/4

Y1 - 2023/12/4

N2 - In this article, I explore the use of cultural emotions in state-aligned post-ETA poetics by analysing the role that illness and disability play in post-ceasefire filmic - Fuego/Fire (Luis Marías, 2014) - and literary - Patria/Homeland (Fernando Aramburu, 2016) - representations of the Basque national conflict. Recent critical discussions interpret disability in Spanish film and literature as harbingers of inclusivity and cultural pluralism (Fraser, 2013; Marr, 2013). However, if placed in the intensely polarised context for media and cultural representations of the Basque conflict in Spain, disability plays a less salutary role. Concretely, I argue that the possibility of post-ETA closure is often envisaged via the spectacularisation (and thus the instrumentalisation) of disabled and ill bodies, which are used to ‘mobilise affect’ towards a series of state-sanctioned positions with regard to victimhood, forgiveness and post-conflict reconciliation.

AB - In this article, I explore the use of cultural emotions in state-aligned post-ETA poetics by analysing the role that illness and disability play in post-ceasefire filmic - Fuego/Fire (Luis Marías, 2014) - and literary - Patria/Homeland (Fernando Aramburu, 2016) - representations of the Basque national conflict. Recent critical discussions interpret disability in Spanish film and literature as harbingers of inclusivity and cultural pluralism (Fraser, 2013; Marr, 2013). However, if placed in the intensely polarised context for media and cultural representations of the Basque conflict in Spain, disability plays a less salutary role. Concretely, I argue that the possibility of post-ETA closure is often envisaged via the spectacularisation (and thus the instrumentalisation) of disabled and ill bodies, which are used to ‘mobilise affect’ towards a series of state-sanctioned positions with regard to victimhood, forgiveness and post-conflict reconciliation.

KW - Basque conflict

KW - ETA

KW - disability

KW - illness

KW - Basque cinema

KW - Patria

U2 - 10.1386/slac_00097_1

DO - 10.1386/slac_00097_1

M3 - Article

VL - Dec 2022

SP - 371

EP - 384

JO - Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas

JF - Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas

SN - 2050-4837

ER -