Galicia, A Sentimental Nation : Gender, Culture and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780708326534 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 275 str.

Helena Miguelez Carballeira

Opis

Galicia, a culturally distinct region in northwest Spain, has often been portrayed as a sentimental nation, a misty land of poets and legends. Here Helena Miguelez-Carballeira argues that this trope is a feminizing, colonial stereotype that has plagued Galician cultural history since the late nineteenth century. Miguelez-Carballeira combs the classic texts of Galician literary history to show how this trope has helped sustain the unequal power relation between Galicia and the Spanish state and how, as a consequence, questions of masculinity, morality, and respectability have played an essential role in Galicia s national construction. By examining how national discourses in Galicia have been affected by questions of gender and sexuality, Miguelez-Carballeira seeks to construct a new paradigm from which to study Galician cultural history and production."