Introduction: The Multilingualism of the Occitan-Catalan Cultural Space, Courtney Joseph Wells

Introduction: New Dialogues with Breton Literature and Culture

“…What precisely makes Catalan literature Catalan?'. 41 The problem, of course, lies not with the centuries-old, pre-national reality of hybrid cultural practices, but rather, with the rigid disciplinary labels which came to dominate thinking about the nation post-1789. Indeed, from this perspective, the nineteenth century, and much of the twentieth, may be thought of as the exception, a long and painful period of denial and mass forgetting.…”