The Hispanic World in the Multilingual Fiction of Colm Tóibín.

Colm Tóibín's residence in several Hispanic nations has influenced his literary production, in particular his novels The South (1990), set predominately in 1950s Catalonia, and The Story of the Night (1997), which takes place in Buenos Aires during and after the Argentine military dictatorship. His time abroad as well as his knowledge of both Spanish and Catalan inform his writing and enable him to bring to the forefront the results of division, conflict, trauma, and identity that have marked Spain, Argentina, and Catalonia in the aftermath of oppressive governmental regimes. As a result, Tóibín functions as an intercultural and interlingual communicator between these nations and his Anglophone readership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]