Catalan/Galician/Basque Narratives

Spanish-language Narrative in non-Castilian Spain

Canonical and Non-Canonical Narratives

The subheading 'Peripheral Narratives' includes, but is not restricted to, the following themes: Catalan/Galician/Basque narratives; Spanish-language narrative in non-Castilian Spain; centre versus periphery; canonical and non-canonical narratives.

Recent Publications in the Field:

Frederic Barberà,' Baltasar Porcel o l'òptica aberrant sobre el món. Prosa de ficció (1958-2004)', Publicacions de l'Abadai de Montserrat, Barcelona, 2007, pp. 1-224. For more details, consult the publisher.

--- 'La identidad determinada por la narración en Muntaner, 38 y El vendedor de rosas de J A Garriga Vela', in La cultura catalana de expresión castellana. Estudios de Literatura, teatro y cine, Stewart King (ed.), Edition Reichenberger,  Kassel, 2005.

--- 'Gabriel Miró y la cultura catalana', in Canelobre (special issue on Gabriel Miró), Alicante, 2005.

--- 'Gabriel Miró, un escriptor en castellà a la Barcelona noucentista', L’Avenç, No 312, April, Barcelona, 2006.

--- 'La recepció de la narrativa de Baltasar Porcel fora de l’àmbit català', in La recepció de la literatura catalana a Europa, Publications Montpellier 3, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 2004.

Three papers on narrative fiction were given at the first Peripheral Identities conference:

M. Jose Olaziregi (University of the Basque Country, Vitoria): 'Canonical and Non-Canonical Narrative in the Basque Context'.

Alexis Grohmann (University of Stirling): 'In the Margins. Todas las almas – Autobiography or Fiction? The Importance of the Exergue'.

Robert Harland (University of Strathclyde): 'Catalan - a Language and Culture at Home? A Study of Double-Voiced Discourse in La verdad sobre el caso Savolta by Eduardo Mendoza' .