Catalan culture : experimentation, creative imagination and the relationship with Spain: essays in honour of David George / edited by Lloyd Hughes Davies, J. B. Hall and D. Gareth Walters.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davies, Lloyd Hughes, editor.

Hall, J. B., editor.

Walters, D. Gareth, editor.

Series:

Iberian and Latin American studies.

Iberian and Latin American Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catalans--Ethnic identity.

Catalans.

Catalonia (Spain)--Social life and customs.

Catalonia (Spain).

Catalonia (Spain)--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2018]

Summary:

This volume presents studies of some of the key artistic manifestations in Catalonia in recent times, a period of innovation and experimentation, and addresses issues concerning literature, film, theatre and performance art. From the creation of a new popular theatre in the work of the Valencian playwright Rodolf Sirera, or the conception of landscape, myth and memory in the late work of the novelist Merc Rodoreda and the urgency of memory and remembrance in the writings of Jordi Coca, the effects of censorship in Catalonia appear to have proved a spur and a challenge to writers. Desiring to occupy illegal spaces, performance groups have manifested both literally and metaphorically the international dimension of Catalan culture in the modern period, posed in the present volume by the instances of La Cubana and Els Joglars , and further evidenced in the cross-fertilization in the work of contemporary Catalan playwrights and filmmakers to foreground issues of national plurality and tensions arising between the periphery (Catalonia) and the centre (Spain and Castile).

Notes:

Description based on print version record.