A Companion to Catalan Culture

Why Catalans insist on their identity.

The tragic fate of the millenary personality of Catalonia has rarely been fully appreciated abroad. Since the early eighteenth century its national voice has been submerged and fractured by a centralist state intent on its arbitrary, unitarian vision of a homogenized Spain. Catalan difference has emerged sporadically in the persons of such irrepressible geniuses as Gaud?, Dal?, Mir? and Bigas Luna but,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855662272
• ISBN13: 9781855662278
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"