Research Catalog

Title

Negotiating Spain and Catalonia : competing narratives of national identity / Fernando León Solís.

Author

Solís, Fernando León

Publication

Bristol, UK : Portland, OR, USA : intellect, 2003.

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Details

Description

vi, 155 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The two case studies included in this book (dealing with the Football World Cups of 1994 and 2002, and the general elections of 1996 and 2000) examine competing discourses of Spain, Catalonia and their national identities, as constructed in the Spanish press. The conservative discourse offers traditional and unified images of Spain close to the stereotype, whereas more liberal visions of the country regard 'Europeanism' and 'reason' (not 'passion') as the values Spain should aspire to. From a peripheral perspective, Catalan self-definition is of a people that is hardworking, thoughtful, truly European, and different from the rest of the Spaniards." "However, these differences between the discourses are not always so clear-cut. Central to Negotiating Spain and Catalonia is the idea of the constant renegotiation of conceptions of Spanish and Catalan identities in order to adapt them to the political circumstance: both case studies show how radically different narratives of Spanishness and Catalanicity offered in the turbulent political past tend to merge in the more tranquil present."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Geschichte 1993-2003
• National characteristics, Spanish
• National characteristics, Catalan
• Nationalism > Spain
• Nationalism > Spain > Catalonia
• Discourse analysis, Narrative > Spain
• Discourse analysis, Narrative > Spain > Catalonia
• Catalonia (Spain) > Civilization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-155) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Four Discourses of Spain and Catalonia -- Ch. 2. The Game of the Nation: Football and Identity -- Ch. 3. Catalonia: Victim and Redeemer of Spain -- Ch. 4. Conclusion.

ISBN

1841500771

OCLC

• 53367895
• SCSB-12678848

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library