This book presents the first feminist translation of Rosalia de Castro's seminal poetic anthology En las orillas del Sar On the Edge of the River Sar] (1884). Rosalia de Castro (1837-1885) was an artist of vast poetic vision. Her understanding of human nature and her deep sensitivity to the injustices suffered by women and by such marginalized peoples as those of her native region, Galicia, are manifest in verses of universal yet rarely translated significance. An outspoken proponent of both women's rights and her region's cultural and political autonomy, Castro used her poetry as a vehicle...

This book presents the first feminist translation of Rosalia de Castro s seminal poetic anthology En las orillas del Sar On the Edge of the River Sar] (1884). Rosalia de Castro (1837 1885) was an artist of vast poetic vision. Her understanding of human nature and her deep sensitivity to the injustices suffered by women and by such marginalized peoples as those of her native region, Galicia, are manifest in verses of universal yet rarely translated significance. An outspoken proponent of both women s rights and her region s cultural and political autonomy, Castro used her poetry as a vehicle...