Resistance in the `Oppressor's Tongue' : English-Language Welsh Writers and Spanish-Language Catalan Writers - Catriona Coutts

This volume presents a�comparison of Welsh writing in English and Catalan writing in�Spanish, and�analyses�the work of selected authors from each literature:�Harri Webb, R. S. Thomas and Rhys Davies from Wales;�Albert S�nchez Pi�ol and Eduardo Mendoza from Catalonia.�From a resistance literature perspective,�the author�asks whether it is possible�for a�literature of national resistance�to exist�in a language that is not the national language. Traditionally, Welsh literature and Catalan literature have been defined as literatures�written in Welsh�or�Catalan�- while positions are shifting, the idea that there could be national resistance literature written in other languages�remains�novel.�Resistance literature is not an approach�previously applied�to study either Welsh writing in English or Catalan writing in Spanish, and�this book argues that the�writings under consideration have�produced�varying degrees of�`resistance literature'.�