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The first decades of the twentieth century represented a golden age in the cultural relations among peninsular peripheral nationalisms. Inheriting from romanticism their aspirations for national resurgence, and relying on literature as a reflection of the national Volksgeist, the affirmation of the Iberian nationalisms, mainly the Basque country, Catalonia and Galicia, resulted from the emergence of their communities to imagine themselves as independent from the Spanish Nation State. The nationalist aspirations, based on differentiation, aimed to force a redefinition of political geography, seeking to operate a reterritorialization, that is, to forge new identity spaces where peoples can freely express themselves at the cultural and political levels (Deleuze, Guatari). In these peripheral regions of Spain two cultural movements emerged seeking to establish contact with an also emergent Portuguese culture. The most remaining affinity among them reside in the revision of their own narratives, narratives of (re)emergence, due to a long curriculum in their literary historiography, now trying to overcome the period of crisis or forgetfulness, for having been denied the opportunity for affirmation owing both to the absorbing influence of foreign aesthetic movements, as in the Portuguese case, or by the Spanish central state domination, imposing on peripheral regions the Hispanic political and cultural matrix.
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Catalan studies Intellectual networks Portuguese culture
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing