Jokin Zaitegi: Erbestetik Euskal Komunitate Irudikatua Eraikitzen

The paper examined how Zaitegi, an exiled Jesuit priest, was able to develop a network of fellow Basque intellectuals to save and rebuild the defeated Basque Country through the Basque language. In order to pursue this goal, Zaitegi created Euzko-Gogoa ( Basque-Will ), the first magazine written entirely in the Basque language, published in Guatemala between 1950-1960.

This magazine became a platform for building an imagined community that could be a reference for the future Basque nation. Gandarias focused on the importance of place in the case of  Euzko-Gogoa  Guatemala, showing how it became the archetype of freedom, a place where the Basque culture found space to grow and build an imagined community, and where exile became a fundamental pillar for the modernization and development of Basque culture and literature.