Nationalism, nation and territory: Jacint Verdaguer and the Catalan Renaixença

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Umfang: Seite(n): 1814-1832
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 33(10)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Thema: Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft ; Politikwissenschaft ; Geschichte ; Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik ; Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung ; politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur ; Nation

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Etherington, John Robert
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Vereinigtes Königreich
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419871003789887
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-251523
• Rechteinformation: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ