Abstract This essay offers an analysis of Jaume Vicens Vives’s influential essay Notícia de Catalunya. Starting from a significant textual detail (the title of a section of the book’s first chapter), it considers the gender inflection in Vicens Vives’s argumentation, which articulates a series of binary oppositions that show a strong ambivalence with regards to the construction of Catalan identity, the role of immigration in Catalan society and history, Catalonia’s relationship with Spain, and the exercise of power. The author argues that Vicens Vives’s discourse on power is predicated on the masculine/feminine binary, through associations that link both a subordinated position and hybridity with femininity, frivolity, unruliness, and hysteria; these associations are essentialized in Vicens’s rhetoric by reference to the body. At the core of the Vicens Vives’s argumentation, the author claims, is a blind spot in his discourse on power: the opposition between voluntat de poder (will to power) and voluntat d’ésser (will to be), which betrays Vicens’s ambivalence with regards to Catalonia’s structural subordinated position vis-a-vis Spain.

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“Virilitat del país”：Jaume Vicens Vives 的 Notícia de Catalunya 中的性别、移民和权力

摘要 本文分析了 Jaume Vicens Vives 有影响力的文章 Notícia de Catalunya。从一个重要的文本细节（本书第一章的一个部分的标题）开始，它考虑了 Vicens Vives 论证中的性别变化，它阐明了一系列二元对立，在加泰罗尼亚身份的构建方面表现出强烈的矛盾心理，移民在加泰罗尼亚社会和历史中的作用、加泰罗尼亚与西班牙的关系以及权力的行使。作者认为，维森斯·维夫斯 (Vicens Vives) 关于权力的论述基于男性/女性二元论，通过将从属地位和混合性与女性气质、轻浮、不羁和歇斯底里联系起来；这些联想在维森斯关于身体的修辞中是必不可少的。