Euskal kulturari estuki agertzen da lotuta ahozko tradizioa eta abesgintza. Lau euskal abesti abesteaz gain haien esanahia azalduko diot entzulegoari.

Euskal kulturan mitologiak eduki duen garrantzia azaldu ondoren, zenbait izakiren aurkezpena egingo da.

Mundua globalizatuz badoa ere, Euskal Herrian eta diasporan euskal kulturak aurrera dirau tradiziori eutsiz, modernitatean murgilduz eta etorkizunari begiratuz.

Nondik Etorriko da Gaurko Bilintx?

Euskera munduko hizkuntzarik zaharrenetakoa da. Euskaldunen nortasuna euskeratik dator eta bertoslaritza euskeraren errotik. Nire aurkezpenak bertsolaritzaren jatorria eta etorkizuna zein diren aztertuko du.

Francoren diktadurapean eta ondoren, demokrazian, euskal olerkariek idatzitako olerki sorta irukarruko da. Bi garai hauetan jorratzen diren gai ezberdinen adibideak dituzten olerkiak direla bitarteko, entzulegoak parte-hartzeko aukera izango du olerkien interpretazioan.

A Call to Break the Silence: A Study of a Bergsonian Hero’s role in An Alligator Named Rosa by Marie-Célie Agnant

In this study, we will examine some of the key elements in Marie-Célie Agnant’s novel and how they function both as a call to break the silence of the victims tortured by the Duvalier regime in Haiti and as an attempt to mend a nation devastated by this torturous regime. This analysis will show how the text highlights the importance of speaking out about the atrocities committed by those working for the regime, not forgiving them of these crimes, and holding them responsible for their actions. Antoine, the novel’s protagonist, functions as a Bergsonian Hero, a catalyst who manifests the characteristics necessary to accomplish these aspirations.

Quiet Struggles: The Narration of Suppression in Marie Chauvet’s Amour, Colère et Folie

Suppressed after its publication in 1968, the trilogy-novel, Amour, Colère et Folie, by Haitian novelist Marie Chauvet remained out-of-print and almost impossible to find for decades. In the three novels that form the trilogy, the reader encounters characters separated by time and social class, but who are all faced with society’s indifference and the brutality of the military regime (a thinly veiled allusion to the dictator François Duvalier’s reign of terror). Despite their disparate backgrounds, these characters are linked through their anguish, struggling in silence against this harsh reality. For them, there exists a conflict between their interior and exterior worlds. A look into the progression of the trilogy’s setting and narrative structure reveals a gradual transformation of personal space (be it physical or mental) from a safe refuge into a suffocating prison where struggle is rendered useless, and reality dissolves into madness.

Lives in Context: The Intersection of Society, Family, and the Individual in La Chambre interdite by Évelyne Trouillot

This paper uses Évelyne Trouillot’s short story collection La Chambre interdite as an avenue to uncover the everyday realities of women living in contemporary Haiti. In each story, entrapment and silence present themselves as unifying themes. In order to better appreciate the significance of these themes in the collection, I will examine three of the six stories in detail; each story studied will serve to underline one of three types of entrapment found in Trouillot’s work that I have identified as individual, political, and social. In fact, as I will demonstrate, most of the women’s anguish stems from their silence with respect to the challenges and barriers that surround them. Because this silence, in a sense, sanctions these problems, speaking about the challenges that Haitians face today could open avenues of discourse where political and social change can occur.