‘The Eternal No-Return’: Melancholy and Deterritorialization in the Cántigas de Alén by José Ángel Valente

The article explores Cántigas de alén, published in 1989 by José Ángel Valente, in light of the exiled and bilingual condition of its author. In this sense, the collection can be seen as a peculiar elegy for a part of Valente’s personal and authorial identity; its loss generates a melancholic patter...

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Main Author: Margarita García Candeira
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat de Barcelona 2013-10-01
Series:Abriu: Estudos de Textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal
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Online Access:http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Abriu/article/view/8048