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This article examines the politics and erotics of Catalan nationalism in the 2004 novel Lluny de l'horitzó perfumat (Far from the Perfumed Horizon), written in Catalan by the Palestinian-Catalan writer Salah Jamal and set in Barcelona during the Transition to Democracy. The article argues that the narrator's ability to "pass"—across ethnoracial, religious, linguistic, socioeconomic, and political lines—is not only an individual's tactic for securing social mobility, but also a gauge of shifting national narratives in the Transition. The article shows how socioeconomic class played into racial constructs that, in turn, supported the nationalist reimagining of Catalonia as a space apart during the Transition. By way of conclusion, the article proposes one of the novel's many satirical monikers, "Moroland," as a keyword for conceptualizing Catalonia as a transnational space of passing. "Moroland" offers a theory for rethinking Transition-era Catalonia in terms of the instability and performativity of identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines Pablo de la Torriente Brau's 1936 novel, Aventuras del soldado desconocido cubano, which was unfinished at the time of Brau's death and remains little known to this day. The novel's use of magical realism, proletarian narrative, and satire make it an important work for consideration in contemporary discussions of cosmopolitanism andworld literature. Iwill showhowthe novel exposes the limits and epistemological implications of nationalist and internationalist models of community during the period between the First and Second WorldWars, a crucial juncture both in world history and in the history of the concept of "world." I argue that the novel's brand of magical realism allows it to represent its particular form of cosmopolitan critique, a cosmopolitanism of the undocumented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]