Helena Miguélez-Carballeira

Galicia, A Sentimental Nation (eBook, ePUB)

Gender, Culture and Politics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Galicia, a non-state nation in north-west Spain, has often been portrayed as a sentimental nation, a misty land of poets and legends. This book offers the first study of this trope as a feminizing, colonial stereotype that has marked Galician cultural history since the late nineteenth century. Through a close reading of the main texts of Galician literary history, the author shows how this trope has helped sustain the unequal power relation between Galicia and the Spanish State. As a consequence, questions of masculinity, morality and respectability have played an essential role in Galicia's national construction, thereby enforcing a masculine definition and limiting the role of women. This book argues for a revision of the main texts of Galician cultural nationalism through a gender and postcolonial perspective, showing that contemporary portrayals of Galician history are dependent on the politically debilitating trope of Galician sentimentality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783165674
• Artikelnr.: 56814016

Autorenporträt

Helena Miguélez-Carballeira is a lecturer in Hispanic studies and director of the Centre for Galician Studies at Bangor University.