{"title":"The spatial turn in Catalan cultural studies","authors":"Maria Dasca","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2023.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2023.21","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In recent years several projects have emerged that address Catalan culture from a spatial point of view. This article aims to review the theoretical framework of what is known as the\u0000 spatial turn\u0000 in order to evaluate its main contributions, and some potential future orientations, in Catalan cultural studies. The paper is divided into three parts. The first part provides an overview of the main approaches inside spatial studies. In the second part, a selection of studies on Catalan culture and literature is reviewed from the perspective of their connections with spatial studies. Finally, the third part presents three case studies focused on examples from Catalan poetry, film, and science fiction and interprets them from three different spatial perspectives: the first based on the phenomenological perspective, the second on the methodology of emotional and sensory geography and the concept of\u0000 cognitive mapping\u0000 , and the third on the spatial figurations of postmodern empire. This final section aims to broaden the applications of spatial analysis, extending it to the interpretation of an open, diverse selection of representations of contemporary Catalan culture.\u0000","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"7 s4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138623265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Najat El Hachmi’s trajectory as a writer","authors":"Katiuscia Darici","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2023.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2023.23","url":null,"abstract":"The canons of current national literatures are influenced by new perspectives introduced by the changes taking place in a new transnational world order. The experience of migration in Catalonia implies significant changes in identity, a topic that leads to reflection on the literary identity of a land, the nationality of authors, and gender issues. The aim of this article is to provide a brief outline of the themes in Najat El Hachmi’s works (Nador, Morocco, 1979), underlining the identity problem that affects second-generation migrants to Spain alongside the ongoing struggle for gender equality.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138626309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(In)complete works","authors":"Lluís Quintana Trias","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2023.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2023.24","url":null,"abstract":"Collections of complete works are an unbeatable indicator of the state of a literary culture: in France, the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade by Éditions Gallimard has published more than 500 volumes since 1931; other examples include I Meridiani by Mondadori (1969), the Deutscher Klassiker Verlag (1981), and the Libray of America (1982). They are also a fundamental component of any culture’s (nation’s?) heritage. This article discusses the concept of complete works and the difficulties they pose in minor cultures such as Catalan. The discussion will address the following two questions: (1) what part of an author’s work is considered for complete works, and what is not, and (2) what should we do with authors who constantly rewrite their work (Carner, Pla, and in fact much of the literature of the twentieth century), including those who try to hide what they have previously published (Borges, Rodoreda)?","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138610249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tourism and performative practices in contemporary Mallorca","authors":"Mercè Picornell","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2023.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2023.20","url":null,"abstract":"Tourism is a central theme in theatre production in Mallorca today. This article analyses a corpus of twelve theatre plays that draw on different formats, ranging from drama text to interactive performances in the public space, to explore the importance of tourism in the redefinition of local culture. The purpose of this article is to analyse how these productions deal with the consensus on an idea of collective heritage, the construction of an identity interfered with by tourist culture, and the representation of a new model of political agency promoted by both environmental activists and artistic creators. On a more metatheoretical level, this article aims to contribute to shaping Catalan cultural studies as an academic and interdisciplinary field more observant of the geopolitics of the region and the local effects of global dynamics, such as those caused by tourism.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138619674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catalan cultural studies","authors":"Esther Gimeno Ugalde, Maria Dasca","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2023.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2023.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" 737","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138610577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fragmentary writing in J.V. Foix’s surrealist criticism and poetry","authors":"Enric Bou","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2023.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2023.22","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article addresses a little-known episode in the surrealist movement: the adventurous (if not hindered) integration of surrealism into Iberian literature and art, particularly J.V. Foix’s intervention through critical (in\u0000 La Publicitat\u0000 ) and poetical writing (\u0000 Gertrudis\u0000 , 1927, and\u0000 KRTU\u0000 , 1932), and his collaboration with Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró. Foix accomplished the dynamic process of transforming and reconfiguring the meaning and function of surrealist aesthetics in Catalonia in a complex network and context. Reading Foix not only as a philological issue, but also against an international background, and from the fragmentary writing perspective, will enrich traditional approaches and provide an insight into Catalan surrealism.\u0000","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"211 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138621399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A muted palette; or, the importance of not being black","authors":"Maria Manuel Lisboa","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2023.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2023.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47422541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reclaiming surrealist aesthetics in popular visual culture","authors":"Mimi Kelly, Victoria Souliman","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2023.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2023.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46804268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theatrical processes and the Iberian stage","authors":"María Chouza-Calo, Esther Fernández, J. Thacker","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2023.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2023.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48311417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The theatre of Agustín Moreto in eighteenth-century Portugal","authors":"María Rosa Álvarez Sellers","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2023.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2023.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46925276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}