The Literature of Exile after 1939 : a Bridge between Catalan Collective Memory and Identity
Corretger, Montserrat, 1950- (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

Date:	2017
Abstract:	The present article reflects on and emphasises the importance of the still-unrecognised work by Catalan writers who bore witness to the exile of 1939 and the preceding historical period of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939) and the Civil War (1936-1939). The article explores how these exiled writers and their literary corpora played a fundamental role in recovering Catalan historical collective memory and identity. In particular, it focusses on two writers, Domènec Guansé and Vicenç Riera Llorca, in the light of recent studies of literary history, which have begun this process of re-evaluating the literature of exile, and thereafter relates their work to the theories of Lowenthal, Ricoeur and Traverso regarding the past and memory.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Exiled Catalan writers ; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ; Francoism ; Exile of 1939 ; Historical memory ; Catalan identity ; Domènec Guansé ; Vicenç Riera Llorca
Published in:	Journal of Catalan Intellectual History, Núm. 11 (October 2017) , p. 68-82, ISSN 2014-1564

DOI: 10.1515/jocih-2016-0006

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