La nació quebequesa. Futur i passat

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2004, 204 pp.

The author suggests considering the Quebecquian society not just inside its historical relations with France, as heir and dependent of this European culture, but also —and maybe to a greater extent— as a new community resulting of a history that belongs to them, as an experience of four centuries in American lands that has shaped a different and original culture. It would be, then, to play down the relation with the French mother country, giving more importance to the continental proximities and relating the path of Quebec to the other communities of the New World. In some way, we should link a lateral vision with a too exclusively vertical one. When reading these pages, one will see that they are imbued with the concern of bringing to light the thinking about Quebec and essentially provide it with an important comparative dimension. The reader will also discover soon that the problems analysed in the book acquire a universal nature: the crash of nationalities and the search of new ways of coexistence are currently in the agenda of all democratic societies. In short, beyond these considerations, the Catalan readers, which also belong to a cultural minority and are familiar with the misfortunes linked to this condition, will maybe identify if not related with the people of Quebec, these Catalans of America.