Draft:Joseba Gabilondo

Joseba Gabilondo (Urretxu, Basque Country, born June 12, 1963) is a Basque writer, professor and literary critic. He has taught at several American universities (Florida University, University of Nevada, Bryn Mawr College, Michigan State University). In 2014 he won the Basque Literature Award (Euskadi Saria) in the Essay category with New York Martutene. He also won the Unamuno Essay Prize in 2015 with his essay Globalizazioak eta Erdi Aro berria (Globalizations and the New Middle Ages). In 2016, he published the first history of Basque literature originally written in English: Before Babel: A History of Basque Literatures.

After writing a trilogy in the field of Basque literary criticism (Introduction to a Postnational History of Contemporary Basque Literature, New York-Martutene, Before Babel), he began another trilogy, with a critical-theory approach, about (post)globalization. He has already published the first two books of the trilogy: Globalizazioak eta Erdi Aro berria (2016; published in Spanish as Globalizaciones: La nueva Edad Media y el retorno de las diferencias) and Populismoaz: Subiranotasun globala eta euskal independentzia (2017; On Populism: Global Sovereignty and Basque Independence). The tentative title of the third book is: Apokalipsirantz: geroaren historia politikoa (Towards the Apocalypse: Political History of the Future).

He has also begun another trilogy about the Spanish state. He published the first book in 2024: España postimperial: Ideologías del imperio restaurativo (Postimperial Spain: Ideologies of the Restaurant Empire). The tentative title of the second book is Atlantic Spain: Literature, Postimperialism, and the Long Nineteenth Century (1766-1923).

Works

Essays


 * España postimperial: Ideologías del imperio restaurativo. Santander: La Voragine, 2024.
 * Populismoaz: Subiranotasun globala eta euskal independentzia. Tafalla: Txalaparta, 2017. (On Populism: Global Sovereignty and Basque Independence).
 * Globalizazioak eta Erdi Aro berria: diferentzien itzuleraz. Donostia: Erein, 2016. Spanish translation: Globalizaciones: La nueva Edad Media y el retorno de las diferencias. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 2019.
 * Before Babel: A History of Basque Literatures. Lansing: Barbaroak, 2016. Basque translation: Babel aurretik: euskal literaturaren historia bat. Tafalla, Txalaparta, 2020.
 * New York - Martutene: Euskal postnazionalismoaren utopiaz eta globalizazio neoliberalaren krisiaz. Bilbo: EHU Argitalpen Zerbitzuak, 2013. (New York Martutene: On the Utopia of Basque Postnationalism and the Crisis of Global Neoliberalism).
 * Nazioaren hondarrak: Euskal literatura garaikidearen historia postnazional baterako hastapenak, 2006. English translation: Introduction    to a Postnational History of Contemporary Basque Literature (1978-2000): Remnants of the Nation. Rochester, NY: Tamesis Books, 2019.

Fiction


 * Apokalipsia guztioi erakutsia, 2009. (The Apocalypse, Revealed to All)
 * Kaliforniatik bihotzez, 1992. (From California with Love).