Catalan Identities: Literature, Social Commitment, and Political Engagement in the 20th Century

Pompeu Casanovas,Montserrat Corretger,Vicent Salvador

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-18144-4_1

Catalan Identities: Literature, Social Commitment, and Political Engagement in the 20th Century

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18144-4_1

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Publication Date: Jan 1, 2019

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Affiliation: La Trobe University, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Rovira i Virgili University, Jaume I University

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What does it mean to write in Catalan? What does ‘Catalan culture’ mean? And what does it mean to build a literary oeuvre? The life trajectories of the authors analysed in this volume enable us to explore these questions from the inside. Catalan culture and language originated in the early Middle Ages. This introductory chapter takes a modern stance and analyses the development of linguistic, literary and social identity in the 20th and 21st Centuries.

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