During the 1950s and 1960s, several key Catalan authors set about rewriting some of their narrative work despite the obstacles to publication in Catalan under the Franco regime. This study describes the social, political and cultural conditions that impelled Salvador Espriu, Xavier Benguerel, Sebastià Juan Arbó and Joan Sales to revise Laia, El testament, Tino Costa and Incerta glòria, concentrating particularly on the linguistic debates and literary trends from the 1950s to the early 1970s.
Drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives, this book examines the reasons for the rewriting, including censorship and self-censorship, generational and ideological changes within the Catalan literary field, controversies over linguistic purism, the appearance of new literary trends and gender and political issues. It focuses on the (re)construction of a distinctive national identity and the impact of repression, memory, exile and silence on the representation of the war and the post-war periods. This study explores not only how writers or society at large were affected by the dictatorship, but how the armed conflict left its mark on the writing process itself.
Jordi Cornellà-Detrell is a Lecturer in Spanish in the School of Modern Languages at Bangor University.
Details
First Published: 16 Aug 2011
13 Digit ISBN: 9781855662018
Pages: 236
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: Tamesis Books
Series: Monografías A
Subject:
Hispanic StudiesBIC Class: GTB
Details updated on 23 May 2013
Contents
- 1 Acknowledgements
- 2 Introduction: The Rewriting of Laia, El Testament, Tino Costa and Incerta Glòria
- 3 Language, Literature and the Writer in Franco's Catalonia
- 4 Disembodying the Nation: The Rewriting of Laia by Salvador Espriu
- 5 Reading between the Lines: Silences and Double Language in Xavier Benguerel's El Testament
- 6 Chronotope and Language Change in Arbó's Tino Costa
- 7 The Undercurrents of History: Memory, Language and Fiction in Joan Sales's Incerta glòria
- 8 Conclusion
- 9 Bibliography
