Constructing Catalan Identity: Memory, Imagination, and the Medieval

✍ Scribed by Michael A. Vargas

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 204
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This is a book about how Catalans use their past, real and imagined, in the construction of their present and future. Michael A. Vargas inventories the significant people, signal events, and familiar icons that constitute the Catalan collective memory, from Wilfred the Hairy and Sant Jordi to the mountain monastery of Montserrat, red peasant caps, and human towers in town squares. He then considers how that inventory is employed to posit a brilliant political heritage at the forefront of modern European democracy―and for some, to build a powerful independence movement. As the future of Catalonia remains fraught, this book offers a lively and engaging exploration of how we draw upon history to confront contemporary challenges.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Learning to Possess the Past
Identity
Medieval and Medievalizing
Nation and Nationalism
Spain as a Construction
Catalanism and Separatism
Historians and Other Agents of Historical Reconstruction
Looking Ahead
Part I: Inventory
Chapter 2: Events and Accidents
The Medieval Roots of Catalanism
The Nature of Events
The List
Chapter 3: Princes and People
Legendary Leaders
Naming the State and Its Ruler
The Fallen and the Forgotten
Chapter 4: Patrons, Protectors, and Creative Defenders
Eulalia and Mary
La Moreneta and Sant Jordi
From “Els Segadors” to “Diguem No!”
Chapter 5: Castle, Coast, and Cathedral
Memories in the Landscape
From the Mountains to the Sea
Fortitude and Fortune in La Masia
Church and Castle in Space and Time
Part II: Making Meaning
Chapter 6: Decadence and Renaissance
Decadéncia: A Malleable Concept
La Renaixença and Catalanisme as Interpretive Problems
Continuities and Discontinuities in La Renaixença
The Long View: Catalonia and the “Spanish Problem”
A Social Project
Chapter 7: Medievalizing and Modernizing
Seeing Like a Tourist
Putting the Old to Work in the New
Chapter 8: Fighting Words
Word Theory
The Catalan Language from Birth to Maturity
On the Catalan Language in the Castilian State
Borders and Immigrants
Should They Speak Catalan?
Chapter 9: Epilogue: In an October of Another Year
Before October 1
The Fiction of Constitutional Autonomy
What Next?
Bibliography
Index

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