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Galicia, a sentimental nation : gender, culture and politics /

This is the first feminist and postcolonial analysis of Galician cultural nationalism and its relation to the Spanish state and Spanish centralism.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Miguélez-Carballeira, Helena
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2013.
Series:Iberian and Latin American studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; Note to the reader; Introduction: When did we become sentimental? Colonial stereotype, national discourse and gender in Galicia and Spain; Shaping Galician femininity: method, metaphorand myth in Augusto González Besada's cultural writing; Purifying the national model: questions of morality and sentimentality in Eugenio Carré Aldao's writing; Competing manhoods: political nationalism versus sentimental regionalism in Antonio Couceiro Freijomil; Sexing the national father: between promiscuity and decorum in Ricardo Carvalho Calero.
  • Breaking out of the normal: from piñeirismo to normalization in contemporary Galician cultureAfterword: The man who married Galicia: towards a postcolonial critique of Galician sentimentality; Notes; Bibliography.