Contemporary Galician Women Writers

Barbour, Catherine (2020) Contemporary Galician Women Writers Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, 39 . Modern Humanities Research Association, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-781888-23-0

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book
Divisions :	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > School of Literature and Languages
Authors :	Name Email ORCID Barbour, Catherine c.barbour@surrey.ac.uk 0000-0002-2916-4717
Date :	August 2020
Copyright Disclaimer :	© 2020 Modern Humanities Research Association
Uncontrolled Keywords :	Contemporary; Spanish; Fiction; Poetry
Depositing User :	Clive Harris
Date Deposited :	22 Jul 2020 09:45
Last Modified :	27 Jul 2020 16:38
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/858263

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