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Political Community in Minority Language Writing

Claiming Difference, Seeking Commonality

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Authors:
  1. Patrick Carlin

    1. Associate Researcher, Language, Policy and Planning Research Unit, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

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  • Analyses 'universal human requirements' from contexts within contested European borders
  • Engages with metacritical discussions relevant to a number of disciplinary audiences
  • Interrogates the claims the authors make for political belonging in a global setting

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Universal Values in a Partisan Key

    • Patrick Carlin
    Pages 1-24

  3. The World Is a Prison: Political Community in the Work of Joseba Sarrionandia

    • Patrick Carlin
    Pages 25-83

  4. Lluís Maria Xirinacs: The Inside and Outside of a Political Ontology

    • Patrick Carlin
    Pages 85-154

  5. Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Bordering Complexity

    • Patrick Carlin
    Pages 155-197

  6. Conclusions: If We Cannot Move From ‘Here’ to ‘There’, Why Not Find a Better Starting Point?

    • Patrick Carlin
    Pages 199-242

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 243-273
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This book offers case studies and a comparative analysis of three authors writing in different European minority languages, exploring how they link national and context-marked political community with universal human requirements. The author examines their left-wing positions and how their writing speaks to the acceptance of difference as a necessary condition of such universal values. He presents, for the first time in English, an in-depth treatment of the writing of the Basque poet, novelist and essayist Joseba Sarrionandia  (1958–) and the Catalan priest and civil disobedience author and activist Lluís Maria Xirinacs (1932–2007), whilst linking their understanding of a 'foundational universalism' with the work of Irish novelist, short-story writer and language activist Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906–1970). The book is by its nature interdisciplinary in order to engage in a thoroughgoing comparative analysis of European language minorities, and responds empirically and theoretically to calls made recently in this regard from within critical Iberian Studies. It will therefore be of interest to students and scholars of fields such as Iberian and Celtic studies, International Relations theory, literary criticism, nationalism studies, political philosophy, as well as socio-legal and critical terrorism studies.

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“Patrick Carlin provides us with a rich and original contribution, providing the reader with a truly multidisciplinary approach. Through his examination of three interventions by scholar activists from the Basque Country, Catalonia and Ireland, analysed in a theoretically rich and engaging manner, Carlin encourages us to rethink issues of identity and citizenship, the question of linguistic minorities and their relationships with state authority. This study will have a range of implications for a number of academic disciplines and deserves to be widely read.” (Andrew Dowling, Reader in Contemporary Spanish History, Cardiff University)

“A profound and elegant book entwining literary and political readings of three leading European authors. Patrick Carlin’s work will certainly be of interest to scholars and students of “minority” cultures in Europe (Basque, Catalan, Irish), but its achievements go way beyond that. In line with some of the best recent work on postimperial egalitarianism, it promulgates a worldview where the intellectual traditions of sub-state anticolonial nationalisms can be recognised as a lucid angle from which to envision more radically democratic futures.” (Helena Miguélez-Carballeira, Professor in Hispanic Studies, Bangor University)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Associate Researcher, Language, Policy and Planning Research Unit, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

    Patrick Carlin

About the author

​Patrick Carlin is an Associate Researcher at the Language, Policy and Planning Research Unit, School of Welsh, Cardiff University, UK. He has published research in the field of minority language sociolinguistics, language and regulation.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Political Community in Minority Language Writing

  • Book Subtitle: Claiming Difference, Seeking Commonality

  • Authors: Patrick Carlin

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48894-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-48893-1Published: 23 January 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-48896-2Due: 23 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-48894-8Published: 22 January 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2947-5880

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-5899

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 273

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Modern Languages, Political Philosophy, International Relations Theory, European Literature

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