Don't touch her anymore, Sam
I come with the book that Navarre bookstores have recently awarded the best book in Basque in 2017: Caliban and witch. In 2004 he arrived in English, in 2010 in Spanish and last year in Basque thanks to the work of Edurne Lazkano and Aitor Arruti.
It is a sexy volume (with almost 500 pages), exciting for neurons, because it allows us to think and develop a critical look at this ambitious work by Silvia Federici. The issue is witch hunt, which happened mainly in Europe, but also in America and Africa. It started in the late Middle Ages, but still today it has left traces in different parts of the world. It also makes connections between the witches of Europe, American colonization and the slaves of Africa.
The author has done an extraordinary documentary work and a valuable theoretical contribution: she has placed witch hunt on social, economic and political issues and has re-read history from a feminist perspective, taking into account gender, class and race.
The first chapter tells us the background of the medieval revolt environment. In the second chapter he talks about the creation of capitalism and shows us the mechanisms that were put in place to move from the feudal system to the capitalist system and clarify what the function of witch hunt was. The third chapter deals with the expropriation of the body and the generation of sexual policies. The fourth chapter will address the issue of witch hunt in Europe with the help of words, graphics and images. The fifth chapter, finally, will focus on the colonization and Christianization of the “New World” and on the displacements to gold, silver, discourse and representation between metropolis and colonies.
He will tell us how the new order was implemented through the extirpation of the earth, the body, the networks of relations and humanity, the spread of sorrows, propaganda and fear. Postulating that they had destroyed resistance groups that did not support power relations, especially poor old women: “By beating the woman, the class authorities subjected the entire proletariat.”
Some books, like movies, have soundtrack, which for me has History repeats itself from Reincident. It was a very appropriate book to read. On the global strike of 8 March.
Barrengaizto
Beatrice Salvioni (Translation:
deceit Fernando Rey)
Txalaparta, 2024
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Fernando Rey has chosen the title of Barrizto to translate La malnata de Beatrice Salvioni. King says he has tried to be the voice of the... [+]
PELLOKERIAK
Ruben Ruiz
Illustrations: Joseba Beramendi, exprai.
Elkar, 2022
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Rubén Ruiz offers a new work of short stories. They are not micronarratives, because the stories, although they can be read independently, have a... [+]
Memet
Noemie Marsily and Isabella
Cieli For Centos, 2022
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We opened the zipper of the camping in red and looked through the leek along with Lucy. With this cover, the reader receives the comic book Memet. Simple words... [+]
A Heart Museum
Leire Vargas
Elkar, 2024
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The Basque cultural system has a thirst for young people. That's what Leire Vargas said in the written column in Berria. The industry is looking for fresh, varied and diverse... [+]
What you love. Word recall, live reading
Miren Billelabeitia
Pamiela, 2022
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Miren Billelabeitia has been a professor at the institute, a literary aficionado and a professor of Universal Literature for years. In 2022 he... [+]
Snarka Lewis Carroll
Hunting
Images:
Translation and Edition of Henry Holiday:Manu LÓpez Gaseni
Pamiela, 2024
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The work we have before us was published in the spring. After the works of Alice in Wonderland,... [+]
Lighting
Miriam Luki
Susa, 2023
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Translations
Miren Agur Meabe
Elkar, 2023
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Last year, Miren Agur Meabe published the novel Itzulerak. As the main characters are young people, we could say that it is juvenile literature, but when literature is good, it is for... [+]
Text:
Ilan Brenman
Illustrations: Guilherme Karsten
translation: In Alkain
Denonartean, 2024
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At the end of this album is a quote from Benjamin Franklin: “There has never been a good war, nor a bad peace.” And... [+]
Pozo
Goiatz Labandibar
Erein, 2024
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The Pozo de Goiatz Labandibarren is a growth novel that takes place one day: the descent of menstruation. Or in other words, a hero's journey, why not.
As often happens in this... [+]
Sorry as if there were no
Mariana Travacio
Erein, 2024
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Although the title may seem like a self-help book, this is a Western text that Erein has published in the narrative section. In the excellent translation of... [+]
Josefa, neskame
Alaitz Melgar Agirre
Elkar, 2022
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Josefa Agirre Etxeberria was one of the women who was raised during the Franco regime. After being exiled at the age of fourteen, he was forced to change his residence... [+]
In the maze of
the theatre I Ander
Lipus EHAZE and Susa
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Playwright Ander Lipus has published with EHAZE and Susa his publications on theatrical autobiography and theatre. In the maze of theatre I. Notebook of Bitácora and... [+]
-It was an ordinary afternoon. For anglerfish.” This evening is what Maite Mutuberria tells us in this album. The book has very few texts and the images tell us very well the development of history.
From the beginning we can see in the illustrations a large and quiet... [+]