More documents from Etherington, John Robert
More documents from Ethnic and Racial Studies
Export to your Reference Manger
Please Copy & Paste
Bibtex-Export
Endnote-Export
Nationalism, nation and territory: Jacint Verdaguer and the Catalan Renaixença
[journal article]
Etherington, John Robert
Download full text
(240 KByte)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-251523
Further Details
| Abstract | This paper seeks to explain the historic importance to Catalan nationalism of the nineteenth-century poet and priest, Jacint Verdaguer. In order to do so, rather than focus on his contribution – and that of the wider cultural revival, the Renaixença - to the development of the Catalan language as the basis for national political mobilisation, this paper argues that we cannot fully understand Verdaguer’s importance without reference to his role in constructing a geographical narrative linking nation and territory. At the same time, given that national meanings are always contested, the paper proposes a dialectical approach to nationalism that situates the work of writers within the context of power struggles between social groups. Consequently, Veradguer’s centrality to Catalan nationalism is ultimately explained by his role in producing a geographical narrative capable of attracting important sectors of rural Catalonia to the hegemonic project of the industrial bourgeoisie. |
| Classification | Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture; Science of Literature, Linguistics; Social History, Historical Social Research |
| Free Keywords | Nationalism; Nation; Territory; Catalonia; Verdaguer; Historic Bloc |
| Document language | English |
| Publication Year | 2010 |
| Page/Pages | p. 1814-1832 |
| Journal | Ethnic and Racial Studies, 33 (2010) 10 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419871003789887 |
| Status | Postprint; reviewed |
| Licence | PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) |
| Document Type | journal article |
