The Literature of Exile after 1939

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 wr...

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Autor: Corretger, Montserrat|||0000-0002-8700-6952
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:182394
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/182394
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1515/jocih-2016-0006
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Exiled Catalan writers
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Francoism
Exile of 1939
Historical memory
Catalan identity
Domènec Guansé
Vicenç Riera Llorca
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Sumario: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.