Nation-Building for Young Catalans. The National History in the Youth Narrative in Catalan (Teixidor, Vallverdú, Cabré and other Authors) Authors Inga Baumann Universitat de Tübingen Keywords: Youth novels in Catalan, collective memory and group identity, nation and nation-building Abstract This contribution analyses several Catalan youth novels both from a literary standpoint and departing from cultural studies theories concerning collective memory and nation. It studies different forms of nation-building in Catalan youth novels published between what is called the “second Francoism” and today. Due to the great importance attached to collective memory in the process of group identification, I will focus on how the history of the imagined community of ‘the Catalans’ is represented, i.e., how the traditions of the ‘Catalan nation’ are invented in these historical narrations. This paper primarily aims to show the evolution of Catalan nation-building in historical youth novels from the late Franco era through the Spanish Transition to the current recovery of historical memory.Key Words: Youth novels in Catalan, collective memory and group identity, nation and nation-building Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) Issue No. 26 (2016) Section Studies and Editions License L&L: Llengua & Literatura is published under the Creative Commons licence system in the “Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives 3.0 Spain” license scheme, the complete text of which is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.ca. Therefore, the public at large is authorised to reproduce, distribute and share its content as long as the author and publisher are acknowledge and it is not used for commercial use or derivative works.This means that when an author submits their work for publication, they are explicitly agreeing to forfeit their editing and publishing rights.L&L provides free and immediate access to its contents (with the versions of the articles submitted that have been positively evaluated and, if needed, amended) through its URL (http://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/LLiL) before they are published on paper, based on the principle that making research available to citizens free of charge fosters the global exchange of knowledge.
