Galicia, a Sentimental Nation: Gender, Culture and Politics

by Helena Miguélez-Carballeira

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 Migu lez-Carballeira argues that this trope is a feminizing, colonial stereotype that has plagued Galician cultural history since the late nineteenth century. Migu lez-Carballeira combs the classic texts of Galician literary history to show how this trope has helped sustain the unequal power relation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708326536
• ISBN13: 9780708326534
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"