The Catalan memory in French concentration camps. Notes for a synthesis

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  • Josep Vicent García Raffi Universitat de València

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https://doi.org/10.7203/qdfed.21.9336

Abstract

The diaspora of republican supporters that took place after the Spanish Civil War resulted in the exile of thousands of people. Many of them crossed the Pyrenees and were placed in improvised internment camps by the sea and different locations in the Roussillon. This traumatic experience generated all types of memory writings by the Spanish republican exiles. An important part of these texts was produced by Catalan refugees, some of them professional writers, others were just anonymous citizens who wished to bear testimony of what they had lived as an outcome of their political defeat. Their texts constitute relevant examples of memory writing, autobiographical or fictional which offers a different textuality.

 

Keywords: French internment camps; internment literature; catalan literature; autobiographical literature; diaspora of The Spanish republicans.

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Author Biography

Josep Vicent García Raffi, Universitat de València

Department of Language and Literature Teaching Faculty of Teacher Training Universitat de València

Published

2016-12-06

How to Cite

García Raffi, J. V. (2016). The Catalan memory in French concentration camps. Notes for a synthesis. Quaderns De Filologia - Estudis Literaris, 21, 83–100. https://doi.org/10.7203/qdfed.21.9336
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