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This concluding chapter analyses the ongoing relevance and significance of literature and identity for Catalan culture today. Wrapping up the volume, it addresses three new issues that require closer attention: (i) the role of popular fiction in constructing cultural identities; (ii) the position of small literatures like Catalan literature within the World Republic of Letters; and (iii) the unresolved and ongoing debate about the position of Catalans who write in Castilian within Catalan culture .
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See, for example, the contributions by different Catalan authors, particularly Maria-Aurèlia Capmany, to the discussion on the role of Castilian-language writers from Catalonia, in Carbonell (1977).
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It is curious that Sánchez Piñol’s fiction in Catalan does not, in fact, deal with Catalan topics. Cold Skin (2003), for example, is a horror novel in the Lovecraftian tradition in which the protagonist ends up on a small, remote Antarctic island where he is beset by beastly sea creatures which he must kill in order to survive, while Pandora in the Congo (2005) is a postmodern adventure cum horror cum detective novel set in Pre-World War I Africa that could be inspired by any number of imperial adventure stories, including Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. When he does deal with Catalan topics, however, like in Victus and its sequel Vae victus (2015), he writes in Castilian.
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King, S. (2019). Under Construction: Literature and Identities in Contemporary Catalan Culture. In: Casanovas, P., Corretger, M., Salvador, V. (eds) The Rise of Catalan Identity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18144-4_18
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