Language, the Novelist and National Identity in Post-Franco Catalonia.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-02

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Language, the Novelist and National Identity in Post-Franco Catalonia. By KATHRYN CRAMERI. Oxford: Legenda, European Humanities Research Centre. 2000. 210 pp. $49.50.

After the death of the dictator, Catalan nationalists needed to project their nation-building to a much wider and more diverse audience and to engage in a postmodern questioning of absolutes. It is against this background that Kathryn Crameri's study discusses the relative relevance of language and novelistic and national identity in Catalonia from the very last years of Franco's rule to the birth of Spanish democracy. According to Crameri, 'using the novel as a nation-building tool...

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