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Una nacion en disputa: La representacion de Cataluña en textos de ficcion y faccion de Vicenc Villatoro, Isabel-Clara Simo, Najat El Hachmi y Felix de Azua (2000-2015)

Carranza Castelo, Ernest
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu155536546943382

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
The concept of the nation remains one of the most complex issues in current political debates within Catalonia and Spain. In both spaces, similarly to the rest of the Western world, this idea is under a permanent process of elaboration through cultural practices and narratives that reinforce or question hegemonic conceptions of national identity. Drawing on theories of the nation and the role of the intellectual in the society, the present work analyses how writers contribute to the construction, deconstruction or questioning of the Catalan nation by including or modifying pre-existing discourses about this community. In order to exemplify the role of the writer in the representation of Catalonia, I propose a discursive examination of fiction and factual texts by four contemporary authors who have been born or educated in the community and who have different ideologies and Catalan or Spanish as their languages of expression: Vicenc Villatoro, Isabel-Clara Simo, Najat El Hachmi and Felix de Azua. All of them have in common the fact that they have received significant acclaim from literary critics and readers and their habitual participation in public debates. The analysis of journalistic articles, essays, and novels written in the 2000-2015 period and reflecting on Catalonia as a community reveals how these texts update prior intellectual narratives with the aim of orienting society during a period of increasing disputes between Catalan and Spanish nationalism. This dissertation argues that, despite their political differences, the analyzed texts show convergences in at least three aspects: the alteration of the meaning of the word “Catalonia” in order to deny, question or reinforce its condition of nation; the opposition to homogenizing narratives formulated from governments in Barcelona or Madrid, and the attempt to define an exclusive other as opposed to an inclusive us. The chosen period of examination is determined by the notorious increase of tension between Spanish and peripheral (Catalan, Basque and Galician) nationalisms at the beginning of the new millennium. This time frame is also affected by the problematization of the idea of the nation in the Western world caused by social, economic and cultural transformations in the context of globalization.
Eugenia R. Romero (Advisor)
Dionisio Viscarri (Committee Member)
Dorothy Noyes (Committee Member)
Ignasi Gozalo-Salellas (Committee Member)
219 p.
Modern Literature; Romance Literature

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  • Carranza Castelo, E. (2019). Una nacion en disputa: La representacion de Cataluña en textos de ficcion y faccion de Vicenc Villatoro, Isabel-Clara Simo, Najat El Hachmi y Felix de Azua (2000-2015) [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu155536546943382

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Carranza Castelo, Ernest. Una nacion en disputa: La representacion de Cataluña en textos de ficcion y faccion de Vicenc Villatoro, Isabel-Clara Simo, Najat El Hachmi y Felix de Azua (2000-2015). 2019. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu155536546943382.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Carranza Castelo, Ernest. "Una nacion en disputa: La representacion de Cataluña en textos de ficcion y faccion de Vicenc Villatoro, Isabel-Clara Simo, Najat El Hachmi y Felix de Azua (2000-2015)." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu155536546943382

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