Abstract

The Estellés Andrés Estellés, Vicent to the shaping of a Valencian/Catalan IdentityCatalan 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 CultureCatalan. 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, which was marked by political and moral repression and a desire to reclaim a cultural identity.