The Other Catalans

""It is startling that the Països Catalans (Catalan-speaking territories) have such a colourful and complex history of migration, and yet, as Josep-Anton Fernàndez points out, only a meagre presence in literature. This volume of nine essays by established and emerging scholars, together with Fernàndez's own illuminating introduction, breaks new ground exploring the intersections of migration with Catalan (and Spanish) history, and (Catalan) national identity. It is sure to become an essential point of reference for Catalanists and Iberian scholars alike.""-- ""P. Louise Johnson, Reader in Catalan and Spanish, University of Sheffield"" ""The Other Catalans is an essential collection of essays to understand the full extent of the presence of immigration in Catalan literature - and the experience of migration in Catalan-speaking territories - since the early twentieth century to the present. Rather than a history of migrant literature or the representation of migration in literature, what the diverse and rich contributions to the volume explore is the extent to which the cultural production associated with the phenomenon of migration as a collectively shared experience has been and continues to be at the core of Catalan literature.""-- ""Mario Santana, Associate Professor and Academic Director of the Catalan Studies Program, University of Chicago""