Name: Constructing Catalan Identity: Memory, Imagination, and the Medieval
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Author: Michael A. Vargas
ISBN: 9783030095727

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Physical Book

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Author

Michael A. Vargas

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

212

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9783030095727

Synopsis "Constructing Catalan Identity: Memory, Imagination, and the Medieval"

This is a book about how Catalans use their past, real and imagined, in the construction of their present and future. Michael A. Vargas inventories the significant people, signal events, and familiar icons that constitute the Catalan collective memory, from Wilfred the Hairy and Sant Jordi to the mountain monastery of Montserrat, red peasant caps, and human towers in town squares. He then considers how that inventory is employed to posit a brilliant political heritage at the forefront of modern European democracy--and for some, to build a powerful independence movement. As the future of Catalonia remains fraught, this book offers a lively and engaging exploration of how we draw upon history to confront contemporary challenges.

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