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5 pages in length. At first glance, one might not readily associate Bigas Luna's Teta I La Luna with Catalan cultural identity, however, the comedy goes well beyond its farcical façade to address Catalonia's long, arduous progression from past to present. That Luna's leading character – a young boy upset by the attention and suckling his new baby brother gets from his mother – seeks out other women upon which he can suckle illustrates through metaphor how Catalan's identity has long been associated with other cultural and social relationships; the boy's inability to stand on his own two feet and instead revert back to infantile behavior indicates the difficulty Catalans have had letting go of their oppressive past. Clearly, fortifying Catalan identity is much like breaking the bond between inherent to mother and child: It is not something accomplished with one abrupt effort but rather requires a weaning process the same as breast suckling. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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progression from past to present. That Lunas leading character - a young boy upset by the attention and suckling his new baby brother gets from his mother - seeks
out other women upon which he can suckle (Berardinelli, 1996) illustrates through metaphor how Catalans identity has long been associated with other cultural and social relationships; the boys inability to
stand on his own two feet and instead revert back to infantile behavior indicates the difficulty Catalans have had letting go of their oppressive past. Clearly, fortifying Catalan identity
is much like breaking the bond between inherent to mother and child: It is not something accomplished with one abrupt effort but rather requires a weaning process the same as
breast suckling. A large part of the Catalan population has been about survival - a state of mental, physical, spiritual, political and social
survival; Bigas illustrates that by clutching to the sense of security his mothers breast represents to him, nine-year-old Tete is better equipped to withstand the tremendous changes that have taken
place in Catalan identity. Bigas further points out how the social, political, economical and religious activities experienced in everyday life represents the very essence of what it means to
be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she does, how one attributes moods, feelings and emotions, the way in
which one interacts with another, as well as what governs overall cultural behavior. It may be true how at the very core of each human being exists a common
thread of kinship with regard to the inner workings of cultural reality, however, there are grand variances that separate one from the next - and even one community from the
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