{"product_id":"female-improvisational-poets-challenges-and-achievements-in-the-twentieth-century-paperback","title":"Female Improvisational Poets: Challenges and Achievements in the Twentieth Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eXabier Irujo\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eIñaki Arrieta Baro\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn December 2009, 14,500 people met at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre in the Basque Country to attend an improvised poetry contest. Forty-four poets took part in the 2009 literary tournament, and eight of them made it to the final. After a long day of literary competition, Maialen Lujanbio won and received the award: a big black \u003cem\u003etxapela\u003c\/em\u003e or Basque beret. That day the Basques achieved a triple triumph. First, thousands of people had gathered for an entire day to follow a literary contest, and many more had attended the event via the web all over the world. Second, all these people had followed this event entirely in Basque, a language that had been prohibited for decades during the harsh years of the Francoist dictatorship. And third, Lujanbio had become the first woman to win the championship in the history of the Basques. After being crowned with the \u003cem\u003etxapela\u003c\/em\u003e, Lujanbio stepped up to the microphone and sung a \u003cem\u003ebertso\u003c\/em\u003e or improvised poem referring to the struggle of the Basques for their language and the struggle of Basque women for their rights. It was a unique moment in the history of an ancient nation that counts its past in tens of millennia: I remember the laundry that grandmothersof earlier times carried on the cushion [on their heads] I remember the grandmother of old times and today's mothers and daughters. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in exile in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1967, Xabier Irujo is the chair \u003cbr\u003eof the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, \u003cbr\u003ewhere he is a professor in Basque Studies and Gender, Race and Identity.\u003cbr\u003e He was the first guest research scholar of the Manuel Irujo Chair at \u003cbr\u003ethe University of Liverpool, William Douglass visiting lecturer at the \u003cbr\u003eUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, and Eloise Garmendia Chair at Boise\u003cbr\u003e State University. He holds three master's degrees in linguistics, \u003cbr\u003ehistory and philosophy and has two PhDs in history and philosophy. He \u003cbr\u003ehas mentored numerous graduate students and has chaired or been a member\u003cbr\u003e of nearly twenty PhD dissertation committees. Dr. Irujo has lectured in\u003cbr\u003e more than thirty American and European universities and academic or \u003cbr\u003ecultural institutions (typically governments, parliaments, museums and \u003cbr\u003elibraries.) He has published on issues related to Basque history and \u003cbr\u003epolitics and has specialized throughout his career in genocide studies \u003cbr\u003ewith a focus on physical and cultural extermination. He serves on the \u003cbr\u003escientific committees of six academic and university presses in Europe \u003cbr\u003eand the Americas. Dr. Irujo has authored more than fifteen books and a \u003cbr\u003enumber of articles in specialized journals and has received awards and \u003cbr\u003ehonors at national and international levels. His recent books include \u003cem\u003eGernika 1937: The Market Day Massacre\u003c\/em\u003e (Nevada University Press, 2015), \u003cem\u003eGernika: Genealogy of a Lie\u003c\/em\u003e (Sussex Academic Press, 2018), and \u003cem\u003eCharlemagne's Defeat in the Pyrenees: The Battle of Rencesvals\u003c\/em\u003e (Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 22, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923200606360,"sku":"9781949805048","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/Ob78FNhwrz9781949805048.webp?v=1793951485","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobookstore.com\/products\/female-improvisational-poets-challenges-and-achievements-in-the-twentieth-century-paperback","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}