La identitat al mercat: l'escriptor català i la ideologia del xarneguisme (II)
- Autores: Joan Ramón Resina
- Localización: Diàlegs: revista d'estudis polítics i socials, ISSN 1138-9850, Vol. 2, Nº. 5, 1999, págs. 45-71
- Idioma: catalán
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- Identity in the market: the catalan writer and the ideology of xarneguisme (II)
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Resumen
Identity in the Market. The Catalan Writer and the Ideology of «xarneguisme» (II) [JOAN RAMON RESINA] To this date Juan Marsé's El amante bilingüe, a novel published in 1990, remains the most explicit literary intervention in Catalonia's language conflict. Although essentially a send up of political figures and institutions of the first post-Franco Catalan government, the novel focuses on the social polarization around language triggered by the first steps towards the rehabilitation of Catalan after Spain's transition to a constitutional regime in 1978. More concretely, this novel is the first literary reaction to the Language Normalization Law, approved in 1983 with the support of all political parties. At first sight, then, this work deploys precise temporal and spatial coordinates. Yet this very specificity occludes a thick historical soil and, the author argues, a complex sociological background, which must be brought into the interpretative purview inasmuch as the work claims to marshal a valid referential system.
The Tyranny of the Polls [JOSEP-MANUEL SILVA I ALCALDE] The polls have become an important part of our democratic life. Polls, enquiries and barometers of opinion are often published and their influence in the political arena seems to be increasing day after day. For this reason, the author of this article analyses the causes of the proliferation of the polls in the public life, the limits of these polls and explains why they fail in certain cases. Polls themselves are neither good nor bad, but we should prevent our democratic system from becoming a tyranny of the polls.
