Abstract
Amaia Salazar is the protagonist of Dolores Redondo’s Baztán trilogy: El guardián invisible, 2012 (The Invisible Guardian), Legado en los huesos, 2013 (The Legacy of the Bones), Ofrenda a la tormenta, 2014 (Offering to the Storm. The novels are hybrid texts that weave in the detective story elements of Basque mythology, fairy tale, and the noir. It is in the character of the detective Amaia Salazar that all these elements converge. Dolores Redondo successfully created a character of a female detective who is not only bright, rational professional investigator relying on the most recent advance in forensic science but also, she is the only one who has access to the mythological sphere. Amaia not only meets the mythological beings basajaun, Mari, and lamias but she interacts with them and receives help from them. The following paper examines the elements that contribute to the hybridity of the novels.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18122/boga.11.1.3.boisestate
Recommended Citation
Gutthy, Agnieszka
(2024)
"Amaia Salazar: Modern Detective, Fairy Tale Heroine, Ancestral Basque Woman,"
BOGA: Basque Studies Consortium Journal: Vol. 11
:
Iss.
1
, Article 3.
https://doi.org/10.18122/boga.11.1.3.boisestate
Available at:
https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/boga/vol11/iss1/3
About the Author
Dr. Agnieszka Gutthy is a Professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Southeastern Louisiana University. Her research interests include comparative literature, literature of exile, Europe minority literatures and cultures (Basques in Spain and Kashubians in Poland). Some of her publications are Literature in Exile of East and Central Europe (New York: Peter Lang, 2009); Exile and the Narrative/Poetic Imagination (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2010); Romantic Weltliteratur of the Western World (New York: Peter Lang, 2020) and numerous articles on Spanish, Polish, Basque, and Kashubian literature.
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