- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804758321
- eISBN:
- 9780804787505
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804758321.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
Between the beginning of the twentieth century and the Civil War, Barcelona was still a Catalan city bound to its hinterland by familial ties and by the steady flow of people, foodstuffs, and ...
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Between the beginning of the twentieth century and the Civil War, Barcelona was still a Catalan city bound to its hinterland by familial ties and by the steady flow of people, foodstuffs, and manufactured goods that sustained its growth through a porous relation with the territory. Today, Barcelona is no longer connected to Catalonia through the motorway and the weekend residence, rather than kinship, history, or language. Rituals of self-display are held occasionally as a way of expediting urban renewal, such as the Universal Expositions of 1888 and 1929, the Olympic games of 1936 and 1992, a Catholic “Eucharistic” Congress in 1952, and the Universal Forum of Cultures in 2004. All of these events had a long-term impact on the city's physical configuration and public image. Catalanism, a broad, transversal movement, grew in importance throughout the first half of the twentieth century. In the 1980s, modernity became the ideology of a providentialist state in which spectacle took over politics.Less
Between the beginning of the twentieth century and the Civil War, Barcelona was still a Catalan city bound to its hinterland by familial ties and by the steady flow of people, foodstuffs, and manufactured goods that sustained its growth through a porous relation with the territory. Today, Barcelona is no longer connected to Catalonia through the motorway and the weekend residence, rather than kinship, history, or language. Rituals of self-display are held occasionally as a way of expediting urban renewal, such as the Universal Expositions of 1888 and 1929, the Olympic games of 1936 and 1992, a Catholic “Eucharistic” Congress in 1952, and the Universal Forum of Cultures in 2004. All of these events had a long-term impact on the city's physical configuration and public image. Catalanism, a broad, transversal movement, grew in importance throughout the first half of the twentieth century. In the 1980s, modernity became the ideology of a providentialist state in which spectacle took over politics.
Joan Ramon Resina
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781846318337
- eISBN:
- 9781846317880
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846318337.003.0015
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
In Direcció Lisboa, Josep Pla effects a redistribution of Iberian cultural space. The Civil War had forced him to accept the utopian character of the Iberian federation, and the demise of this ...
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In Direcció Lisboa, Josep Pla effects a redistribution of Iberian cultural space. The Civil War had forced him to accept the utopian character of the Iberian federation, and the demise of this political ideal strengthened the certainty of irreducible otherness. It was no longer against the foil of Catalan modernity, but against the sensual and sensible Portuguese way of life that Castile appeared in the light of its barbaric disruption of the Peninsula's diversity. Pla framed his travels to Portugal with the trope of the itinerary. The approximations and separations in space do double duty for the conjunctions and disjunctions in time, collecting the variegated themes and descriptions of the Other into the discourse of “travel narrative” but also subjecting them to the interpretive conventions of historical discourse. If Pla indulges in a detailed representation of Portuguese difference, in turn Portugal allows him to de-familiarize Spain in an Iberian representation that competes with official history through the objectivity of presence.Less
In Direcció Lisboa, Josep Pla effects a redistribution of Iberian cultural space. The Civil War had forced him to accept the utopian character of the Iberian federation, and the demise of this political ideal strengthened the certainty of irreducible otherness. It was no longer against the foil of Catalan modernity, but against the sensual and sensible Portuguese way of life that Castile appeared in the light of its barbaric disruption of the Peninsula's diversity. Pla framed his travels to Portugal with the trope of the itinerary. The approximations and separations in space do double duty for the conjunctions and disjunctions in time, collecting the variegated themes and descriptions of the Other into the discourse of “travel narrative” but also subjecting them to the interpretive conventions of historical discourse. If Pla indulges in a detailed representation of Portuguese difference, in turn Portugal allows him to de-familiarize Spain in an Iberian representation that competes with official history through the objectivity of presence.
Patrizio Rigobon
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781846318337
- eISBN:
- 9781846317880
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846318337.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
The chapter focuses primarily on the work Historia del renacimiento literario contemporáneo en Cataluña, Baleares y Valencia (1880) by Francisco María Tubino and especially on the issue of Iberianism ...
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The chapter focuses primarily on the work Historia del renacimiento literario contemporáneo en Cataluña, Baleares y Valencia (1880) by Francisco María Tubino and especially on the issue of Iberianism as an outcome of political Federalism in the Iberian peninsula. Tubino disapproved (or simply ignored) a true “Iberian” standpoint. Nevertheless his opinion about Catalonia, its language and literature, is open-minded and quite new for his time (1880), especially for a man deeply involved in the Spanish political milieu on behalf of “la madre España”. The chapter also focuses on Patria y Federalismo, which was written some years before (1873) the Historia. This work focuses on some of the political outcomes to which the Historia provides the cultural background. In Patria y Federalismo his position concerning Federalism and Spain is clearly explained in terms like the following: “with regard to demonstrating that such a regime does not run contrary to the unity of the country, my wish was to reconcile its institutions with the recognition of individual rights. My approach stems from this”.Less
The chapter focuses primarily on the work Historia del renacimiento literario contemporáneo en Cataluña, Baleares y Valencia (1880) by Francisco María Tubino and especially on the issue of Iberianism as an outcome of political Federalism in the Iberian peninsula. Tubino disapproved (or simply ignored) a true “Iberian” standpoint. Nevertheless his opinion about Catalonia, its language and literature, is open-minded and quite new for his time (1880), especially for a man deeply involved in the Spanish political milieu on behalf of “la madre España”. The chapter also focuses on Patria y Federalismo, which was written some years before (1873) the Historia. This work focuses on some of the political outcomes to which the Historia provides the cultural background. In Patria y Federalismo his position concerning Federalism and Spain is clearly explained in terms like the following: “with regard to demonstrating that such a regime does not run contrary to the unity of the country, my wish was to reconcile its institutions with the recognition of individual rights. My approach stems from this”.
