Abstract Acclaimed Catalan writer Jordi Puntí’s fictional memoir Els castellans (2011) offers an important contribution to contemporary debates on immigration and national identity in Catalonia. Set in the 1970s in the small industrial city of Manlleu, this collection of semi-autobiographical vignettes about two rival groups of boys narrates not only Puntí’s adolescence, but also provincial Catalonia’s struggle to integrate large numbers of working-class Spanish migrants who arrived to the region in the mid-twentieth century. Els castellans is groundbreaking in its literary telling of the experience of the 1950s–1970s migratory wave from a Catalan-identified point of view. Adopting a geographical approach to examine how the memoir interrogates the divisions between Catalans and Spanish migrants, this essay argues for reading Els castellans as a coming-of-age allegory of Catalan and Spanish political transitions that provides a much-needed reckoning with Catalonia’s history of immigration. At the same time, the memoir spatially connects the mid-century Spanish migrants to present-day Moroccan immigrants, revealing a recurring fear of mobility. Els castellans counters this fear by articulating a dynamic, bidirectional integration process that transforms the host as much as the migrant.

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Jordi Puntí 的 Els castellans：重塑加泰罗尼亚移民和融合叙事

摘要 著名的加泰罗尼亚作家 Jordi Puntí 的虚构回忆录 Els castellas (2011) 为当代关于加泰罗尼亚移民和民族认同的辩论做出了重要贡献。这部关于两个敌对男孩群体的半自传小插曲集发生在 1970 年代，故事背景设定在 1970 年代的小工业城市 Manlleu，不仅讲述了 Puntí 的青春期，还讲述了加泰罗尼亚省如何整合大量抵达西班牙的工人阶级移民的斗争。二十世纪中叶地区。Els castellas 开创性地从加泰罗尼亚人认同的角度讲述了 1950 年代至 1970 年代移民潮的经历。采用地理方法来研究回忆录如何质疑加泰罗尼亚人和西班牙移民之间的分歧，本文主张将 Els castellans 解读为加泰罗尼亚和西班牙政治过渡的成年寓言，为加泰罗尼亚的移民历史提供急需的清算。与此同时，这本回忆录在空间上将世纪中叶的西班牙移民与当今的摩洛哥移民联系起来，揭示了对流动性的反复恐惧。Els castellas 通过阐明一个动态的、双向的整合过程来对抗这种恐惧，这个过程可以像移民一样改变寄宿者。