L’imaginari rural català en el cinema i la literatura d’autora a les primeres dècades del segle XXI : una aproximació

Abstract

Since the turn of the 20th century, the Catalan rural territory has taken on a newfound relevance as a result of the generational shift marked by the emergence of a new generation of female filmmakers. The films of Carla Subirana, Neus Ballús, Eva Vila, Carla Simón, and Elena Trapé allow us to raise a series of questions related to the hybridity of filmic genres, the porosity between fiction and non-fiction, the growing presence of women, the return to or the connection with the land, the dichotomy between youth and old age, motherhood, the direct or indirect presence of the autobiographical self, and the use of Catalan as the normative language of communication in most films. This article aims to explore these parameters in contemporary Catalan narrative as well, featuring reflections on female writers (Carlota Gurt, Imma Monsó, Irene Solà, Anna Ballbona, Mercè Ibarz) who make use of rural space, Catalan in different dialectal forms and narrative selves imbued with transparently autobiographical implications

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