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This volume examines the cultural policy of the Catalan Autonomous
Government under the leadership of Jordi Pujol and his party,
Convergencia I Unio, who were in power from the post-Franco
transitional period through Pujol's retirement in 2003. Examining
issues of national identity and cultural nationalism in the context
of globalization, multiculturalism, and the commodifications of
culture, this book looks at how Pujol's government tackled these
challenges. In addition, Kathryn Crameri analyzes the impact of
devolved government on the promotion and preservation of minority
cultures and the contradictions inherent in a world where national
boundaries are supposedly diminishing.
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 Catalan. (Legenda 2000)
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