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The Basque arts project focuses on the relationship between literature and visual culture and the on-going socio-political conflict. The project aims to move beyond the traditional constraints of reading Basque arts within the framework of identity tied to territory. Adopting the view that the Basque Country is a historical and cultural palimpsest, the project has as one of its main objectives the study of literature and art that exemplify the key role of the palimpsest as representation of the continuity and breaks between past and present –for instance palimpsests of the political and cultural projects of the 1960s in the contemporary Basque context, and the function of the palimpsest as one of the major modes of representation of the dynamics of violence. The wider framework of the project is the study of the links between creativity and violence, and creativity and conflict-resolution

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