IDENTIDAD CATALANA EN LA MEMORIALÍSTICA DE LA GUERRA CIVIL: CUANDO ÉRAMOS CAPITANES. MEMORIAS DE AQUELLA GUERRA DE TERESA PÀMIES
CATALAN IDENTITY IN THE CIVIL WAR MEMOIR LITERATURE: CUANDO ÉRAMOS CAPITANES. MEMORIAS DE AQUELLA GUERRA BY TERESA PÀMIES

Summary/Abstract: In the volume “Cuando éramos capitanes. Memorias de aquella guerra” (1974) Teresa Pàmies recounts her experience as a young Republican leader during the Spanish Civil War. She describes the adversities and resistance of the city of Barcelona under the bombardments and siege of Franco's troops, as well as the retreat sparked by its defeat. Our study examines how the author (re)constructs Catalan identity through her testimony regarding Catalan political and cultural figures of the war and exile. It also analyzes how she approaches the social, cultural, and literary achievements of the Republican period in Catalonia, the culture-Catalanness dyad, the identity paradigms of the Catalan diaspora in France, as well as her attitude toward extreme Catalan nationalism, her love for Catalonia, and for Spain.

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