Language, the Novelist and National Identity in Post-Franco Catalonia
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A01=Kathryn Crameri
Albert Balcells
Amb Una
Assemblea De Catalunya
Author_Kathryn Crameri
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Catalan Culture
Catalan Literature
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collective memory Spain
culture
De La Generalitat De Catalunya
De Sal
decolonisation in literature
El Amante
Enric Prat De La Riba
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Jacint Verdaguer
Juan Goytisolo
La Catalana
La Seva
language identity novel analysis
linguistic identity politics
literature
manuel
Manuel De Pedrolo
minority language studies
narrative pluralism
National Biography
pedrolo
Political Catalanism
post-Franco Catalonia
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Prat De La Riba
Spanish transition literature
Terenci Moix
Vice Versa
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781900755375
- Weight: 348g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Kathryn Crameri reveals some of the complex responses of writers and literary critics to the new possibilities for the expression of Catalan identities which resulted from Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy. The study begins by considering the cultural and political context of the Catalan novel from the 'Renaixenca' to the present day, and then offers a detailed analysis of novels by four very different writers - Montserrat Roig, Manuel de Pedrolo, Juan Marse (who writes in Spanish) and Biel Mesquida - all of whom seem to share an underlying thematic preoccupation with both individual and national 'transitions' and the intricate relationship between language and identity. These writers challenge institutionalised visions of the link between Catalanism, the Catalan language and Catalan literature, and offer a more pluralistic and personalised version of what it is to call oneself a Catalan.
