This study, charting the construction of a Catalan identity from the nineteenth-century cultural renaissance until the present day, explores the interaction
of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia.
Drawing on postcolonial and multicultural literary theories, it argues that Castilian- and Catalan-language narratives are expressions of the same culture. Through
detailed analyses of texts by Terenci Moix, Francisco Candel, Ignasi Riera, Montserrat Roig, Juan Marsé, Ramon Pallicé, and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, among
others, the author demonstrates that such writers share similar preoccupations and points of view and also engage in a complex literary and cultural dialogue that cuts
across the established linguistic divisions that characterise cultural politics in Catalonia. The Catalan literary establishment's exclusion of Castilian as a language
capable of expressing 'Catalan-ness' is challenged and the author proposes redefining traditional understandings of Catalan literature to take into account texts
produced by all members of Catalan society.
Introducción
1 Construir la identidad: de la Renaixença en adelante
2 El `greu problema d'identitat': escribir en castellano en Cataluña
3 Traducir la catalanidad
4 `El tema delicat': inmigración y literatura
5 La desmitificación cultural: los casos de Juan Marsé y Montserrat Roig
6 `Entre el deseo y la realidad': identidad y narrativas históricas
7 Hacia una redefinición de la literatura e identidad catalanas
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