Galicia, A Sentimental Nation
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Galicia, A Sentimental Nation

Gender, Culture and Politics

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Galicia, A Sentimental Nation

Gender, Culture and Politics

About this book

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

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253
Index
68, 
71–5, 
77, 
88–92, 
95–6, 
98, 
100, 
165, 
175, 
209–10, 
222 
n. 
4, 
223 
n. 
6, 
224 
n. 
5; 
Galician 
rural 
29, 
38, 
52–4, 
58, 
72, 
89, 
143, 
163, 
166, 
209; 
Galician 
women’s 
writing 
150, 
172, 
180, 
186–7, 
188–9, 
196–
200, 
209–10; 
images 
of 
women 
29, 
41, 
59, 
148; 
lesbianism 
198
Xerais 
184, 
188, 
198, 
201, 
205
Ye
ğ
eno
ğ
lu, 
Meyda 
6, 
34
Young, 
Robert 
C. 
7, 
8
youth 
groups 
116, 
117; 
Association 
of 
Galician 
Youths 
116, 
117; 
Santiago’s 
Catholic 
Youth 
Society 
42; 
Youth 
Lyceum 
171
Zunshine, 
Lisa 
160, 
165

Table of contents

  1. Series editors’ foreword
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Note to the reader
  4. Introduction: When did we become sentimental? Colonial stereotype, national discourse and gender in Galicia and Spain
  5. Shaping Galician femininity: method, metaphorand myth in Augusto González Besada’s cultural writing
  6. Purifying the national model: questions of morality and sentimentality in Eugenio Carré Aldao’s writing
  7. Competing manhoods: political nationalism versus sentimental regionalism in Antonio Couceiro Freijomil
  8. Sexing the national father: between promiscuity and decorum in Ricardo Carvalho Calero
  9. Breaking out of the normal: from piñeirismo to normalization in contemporary Galician culture
  10. Afterword: The man who married Galicia: towards a postcolonial critique of Galician sentimentality
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography