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The contribution made by Valencian poet Vicent Andrés Estellés (1924–1993) to the shaping of a Valencian/Catalan identity was largely achieved through representations of native landscapes and evocations of places that stirred both the poet’s individual memories and the collective memories of Valencians in the context of Catalan culture . At a time when spatiality is advocated as an extraordinarily important dimension for human sciences, several of Estellés’ works serve to construct a symbolical map of the territory. In addition to this epic and mythical undertaking, carried out from the macrohistorical perspective and suggesting a project for the future for his country, Estellés pays special attention to the microhistorical dimension of Valencian identity while also constructing highly representative scenes of specific chronotopes, such as Valencia during the Francoist period (1939–1975), which was marked by political and moral repression and a desire to reclaim a cultural identity.
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Brotherhood Crime is a historical work that fictions the events that took place in the Valencian Country between 1519 and 1522, the so-called Germania (brotherhood) revolt, which faced the popular classes with the nobility.
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This study is a result of the research project “The discursive construction of the conflict: territoriality, image of the disease and gender identities in literature and in social communication” (FFI2017-85227-R).
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Salvador, V. (2019). Spatiality and Valencian/Catalan Identity in the Poetry of Vicent Andrés Estellés. In: Casanovas, P., Corretger, M., Salvador, V. (eds) The Rise of Catalan Identity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18144-4_12
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