Towards a Queer Basque nation through Itxaro Borda’s poetry

Abstract

This article analyzes different discursive figurations that can be found in Itxaro Borda’s poetry and that try to build a Basque national community based on poststructuralist premises. A subversive voice that defends its own difference makes a dissenting understanding of the Basque nation possible. From a lesbian identity, a borderland Basque nation is defended while, at the same time, traditionalist and atavist ideas of the nation are rejected and their inherent contradictions shown; and a defence of another Basque identity, an anti-essentialist nation, in a continuous changing process, is disseminated and is confronted to discriminating and coercing values.