The Rise of Catalan Identity Social Commitment and Political Engagem
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? Wha
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e of Catalan Identity Social Commitment and Political Engagement in the Twentieth Century
The Rise of Catalan Identity
Pompeu Casanovas Montserrat Corretger Vicent Salvador •
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The Rise of Catalan Identity Social Commitment and Political Engagement in the Twentieth Century
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Editors Pompeu Casanovas La Trobe University Melbourne, Australia
Montserrat Corretger Rovira i Virgili University Tarragona, Spain
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain Vicent Salvador Jaume I University Castellón de la Plana, Castellón, Spain
ISBN 978-3-030-18143-7 ISBN 978-3-030-18144-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18144-4
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Preface: Catalan Identity
To Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sánchez
This is a book on Catalan culture, identities, politics and literature. We wrote a previous version in Catalan, focusing mainly on the literary and social commitment of several writers in the twentieth century.1 We covered the time span between 1920 and 1980, from the aesthetic movement called Novecentism to the restoration of democracy that followed the long Francoist dictatorship. In this English volume, we have extended the original scope to embrace the whole twentieth century and the beginning of the new millennium. While we have kept and updated several chapters on literary and cultural history, dismissing others, the result is a different book. We are focusing now on the innovative capacity and transformative power of language and literary works. There are several reasons for this. First, Catalans constitute a minority within Spain, which is consolidated as a modern nation-state
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