Political Community in Minority Language Writing: Claiming Difference, Seeking Commonality

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
1: Introduction: Universal Values in a Partisan Key
	References
2: The World Is a Prison: Political Community in the Work of Joseba Sarrionandia
	Introduction
	Conceiving the Political
	Political Violence
	Joseba Sarrionandia: Imagery and Reception
	Conclusion
	References
3: Lluís Maria Xirinacs: The Inside and Outside of a Political Ontology
	Introduction
	The Early Years
	The Activist Years: Civil Disobedience and Hunger Strikes
	Xirinacs as Senator: The Civil Disobedient Within Institutions
	Xirinacs: The Final Years
	Conclusion
	References
4: Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Bordering Complexity
	Introduction
	When I Did Read It, I Knew Exactly What It Was
	Locating Local, Organic Community
	The Civil Service and Borders: The Excavation of a Political Ontology
	Conclusion
	References
5: Conclusions: If We Cannot Move From ‘Here’ to ‘There’, Why Not Find a Better Starting Point?
	Introduction
	The Reaffirmation of Political Community: Incarceration and ‘Nowhere Places’
	Another Nowhere: Utopia, Dystopia and Alterity
	Enjoyment of the Particular
	Conclusion
	References
References
Index