The Rise of Catalan Identity [electronic resource] : Social Commitment and Political Engagement in the Twentieth Century /
Casanovas, Pompeu.editor.(orcid)0000-0002-0980-2371https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0980-2371edt
Corretger, Montserrat.editor.
Salvador, Vicent.editor.
This volume helps us to understand that the current political disorders in Catalonia have deep cultural roots. It focuses on the rise of Catalan cultural, national and linguistic identity in the 20th century. What is happening in Catalonia? What lies behind its political conflicts? Catalan identity has been evolving for centuries, starting in early medieval ages (11th and 12lve centuries). It is not a modern phenomenon. The emergence of imperial Spain in the 16 c. and the French Ancien Régime in the 17 c. correlates with a decline of Catalan culture, which was politically absorbed by the Spanish state after the conquest of Barcelona in 1714. However, Catalan language and culture flourished again under the stimulus of the European Romantic Nationalism movement (known as the Renaixença in Catalonia). During the first Dictatorship (Primo de Rivera, 1923-1930), the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and the long Francoist era (1939-1975), Catalan language and culture were repressed, yet refurbished and reconstructed at the same time. This rise of a plural, complex, and non-homogeneous Catalan identity constitutes the subject matter of this volume. National conflicts that emerged later in the Spanish democratic state leant heavily on the life engagement and vital commitment experienced by the entrenched intellectual movements of the twentieth century in Catalonia, Valencian Country and the Balearic Islands. This book reveals the cultural and literary grassroots of these conflicts.
Acknowledgments -- Catalan Identity: Preface -- Chapter 1. Catalan Identities: Literature, Social Commitment, and Political Engagement in the 20th century; Pompeu Casanovas, Montserrat Corretger, Vicent Salvador -- Part I. Identity: Law, Philosophy, Literature and Language -- Chapter 2. Catalan Identities: Language, Power and Political Pactism from a Historical Perspective; Pompeu Casanovas -- Chapter 3. Catalan Identity Projected Abroad: The Example of the Journal Cataluña (1907-1908); Emili Samper -- Chapter 4. Essay and Philosophy in Catalan Culture from 1940 to 1960; Joan Cuscó -- Chapter 5. Language Policies in Contemporary Catalonia: A History of Linguistic and Political Ideas; Narcís Iglesias -- Part II. Humanities in Exile -- Chapter 6. Carles Riba: An Intellectual Between Poetry and Politics; Jordi Malé -- Chapter 7. Identity and Memory in the 1939 Catalan Literature of Exile; Montserrat Corretger -- Chapter 8. Catalan Translation in Chile in the Exile of 1939; Montserrat Bacardí -- Part III. Writing under Francoism -- Chapter 9. Joan Oliver Under the Surveillance of Francoist Police (1948-1977); Francesc Foguet -- Chapter 10. Manuel de Pedrolo or The Political Dimension of Existentialism; Xavier Ferré Trill -- Chapter 11. Social Engagement and Urban Identity in the Catalan Novel of the 1970s; Adolf Piquer -- Chapter 12. Spatiality and Valencian/Catalan Identity in the Poetry of Vicent Andrés Estellés; Vicent Salvador -- Part IV. Literature as Social Commitment and Political Engagement -- Chapter 13. Individualism, Madness and Revolution in the Catalan Novel Under the 2nd Republic: Perot i l’Estel by Antoni Fuster Valldeperas; Magí Sunyer -- Chapter 14. Memory and Identity through some Valencian Writers’ Autobiographical Texts; Anna Esteve -- Chapter 15. Fantasy, History, and Politics: Jaume Fuster’s Trilogy, or the Undone Catalan Nation; Alfons Gregori -- Chapter 16. And the turbid azure of being three times a rebel: Commitment and Identity in the Literary Works of M. Aurèlia Capmany, Montserrat Roig and M. Mercè Marçal; M. Àngels Francés -- Part 5. Extending into the 21st century -- Chapter 17. Catalan’s Presence on the Internet (1993-2018); Peter Gerrand -- Chapter 18. Under Construction: Literature and Identities in Contemporary Catalan Culture; Stewart King -- Index.
This volume helps us to understand that the current political disorders in Catalonia have deep cultural roots. It focuses on the rise of Catalan cultural, national and linguistic identity in the 20th century. What is happening in Catalonia? What lies behind its political conflicts? Catalan identity has been evolving for centuries, starting in early medieval ages (11th and 12lve centuries). It is not a modern phenomenon. The emergence of imperial Spain in the 16 c. and the French Ancien Régime in the 17 c. correlates with a decline of Catalan culture, which was politically absorbed by the Spanish state after the conquest of Barcelona in 1714. However, Catalan language and culture flourished again under the stimulus of the European Romantic Nationalism movement (known as the Renaixença in Catalonia). During the first Dictatorship (Primo de Rivera, 1923-1930), the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and the long Francoist era (1939-1975), Catalan language and culture were repressed, yet refurbished and reconstructed at the same time. This rise of a plural, complex, and non-homogeneous Catalan identity constitutes the subject matter of this volume. National conflicts that emerged later in the Spanish democratic state leant heavily on the life engagement and vital commitment experienced by the entrenched intellectual movements of the twentieth century in Catalonia, Valencian Country and the Balearic Islands. This book reveals the cultural and literary grassroots of these conflicts.
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