Contemporary Galician Women Writers Contributor(s): Barbour, Catherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 178188823X ISBN-13: 9781781888230 Publisher: Legenda OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese - Literary Criticism | Modern - 21st Century |
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (0.96 lbs) 146 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Galician literature has historically played an integral role in the consolidation of Galician identity. Yet female novelists writing in Galician have only managed to achieve visibility in the Galician cultural sphere as recently as the turn of the twenty-first century; their contemporaries who opt to write in Spanish, moreover, are generally overlooked. This foundational study of contemporary narrative by Galician women in both languages examines the work of writers with disparate and often conflicting political and linguistic ideologies: Teresa Moure (b. 1969), Luisa Castro (b. 1966) and Marta Rivera de la Cruz (b. 1970). Catherine Barbour argues that the diverse manifestations of Galician identity in their novels, which defy institutional parameters in terms of language, politics and gender, suggest the need for a more porous understanding of Galician literature and identity that reflects the plurality of the Galician experience. Catherine Barbour is Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Surrey. |