Affective Landscapes

Cristina Ortiz Ceberio (PhD, University of Cincinnati) is a Professor of Humanities and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where she coordinates the Spanish and Latin American Studies program. She was the recipient of the Patricia W. Baer Professorship in Education (2015-2019). Ortiz Ceberio has numerous articles published on issues of gender and nationalism in peer-reviewed journals in Europe and the United States. Among the most recent publications are "Relatos parciales: Visiones de Estados Unidos desde el nacionalismo vasco" in Resistiendo al Imperio: Nuevas aproximaciones al antiamericanismo desde el siglo XX hasta la actualidad (Misael Arturo Lopez Zapico and Irina A. Feldman, Eds., 2019) and Ellas cuentan: Representaciones artísticas de la violencia en el País Vasco desde la perspectiva de género (with Maria Pilar Rodriguez, 2020).María Pilar Rodríguez is a Professor in the Department of Communication of the University of Deusto (Spain) and Director of the PhD program in Leisure, Culture and Communication for Human Development. She holds a PhD from Harvard University. Until 2002 she taught at Columbia University in New York. She has published extensively on literature, film, culture, gender studies and Basque and Hispanic studies. She is the Principal Investigator of the Communication Research Team of Universidad de Deusto, recognized and funded by the Basque Government. She is regularly invited to teach in North American universities such as Dartmouth College, University of Chicago and Columbia University. She was one of the Jurors of the National Essay Prize (2018) awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. She has authored six books and has published 75 articles and book chapters in peer-reviewed European and North American journals.

“Cinema and literature are spaces where the memory of the violence experienced in the Basque Country can be elaborated upon; works of art can open the collective debate about all the things that we still do not understand: the pain of the victims, our complacent silence as a society, the permeability of violence in every aspect of life. This study analyzes some of our attempts to grapple with that past and it does so by presenting a double theoretical gaze—affect and gender theories—that illuminates with perspicacity the issues. The authors position us in front of a new genealogy of female artists who have represented violence in their works.”—Edurne Portela, Writer and Critic

• Artistic Representations of Violence from a Gender Perspective: The Affective Turn – The Identity Question: A Journey Back and Forth – Gender and Political Violence: The First Literary Representations: Nerea eta biok (Nerea and I) and Koaderno Gorria (The Red Notebook) – Ander eta Yul (Ander and Yul) and Yoyes: Death and Affective Disruptions in a Fractured Community – El Ángulo ciego (The Blind Spot) and El Comensal (The Dinner Guest): Affective Ramifications in Literary Representations of Political Violence – Mejor la ausencia (Better the Absence): Violence and Affective Ruptures – Back to the Past: Explorations of Domestic, Social, and Political Conflicts: Los turistas desganados (Listless Tourists), La línea del frente (The Front Line), and Los niños de Lemóniz (The Children of Lemoniz) – Some Final Thoughts.