Representaciones subculturales del Raval de posguerra en la poesía de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Abstract

Manuel Vazquez Montalban has always reclaimed the collective and historical memory of the inhabitants of Barcelona’s Raval neighborhood defeated in the Civil War. This is a group whose cultural formation was forged, above all, thanks to the subcultural elements of mass media. The memory of the defeated, undoubtedly part of author’s own remembrance, as well as their cultural blend, subcultural references have become one of the core ideas that stands out in his poetic production, especially in the texts dedicated to the reality of post-war Barcelona. The aim of this study is thus to locate and study the presence and function of the aforementioned subcultural references in Montalban’s poetry. The main purpose of the poems is to reclaim the memory and the configuration of the daily reality of the post-war Raval, as well as to recover the representation of the fusion in the writer’s identity and formation.