Writing Galicia Into the World: New Cartographies, New Poetics (Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures)

by Kirsty Hooper

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Writing Galicia explores a part of Europe's cultural and social landscape that has until now remained largely unmapped: the exciting body of creative work emerging since the 1970s from contact between the small Atlantic country of Galicia, in the far north-west of the Iberian peninsula, and the Anglophone world. Unlike the millions who participated in the mass migrations to Latin America during the 19th century, those who left Galicia for Northern Europe in their hundreds of thousands during the 1960s and 1970s have remained mostly invisible both in Galicia and in their host countries. This study traces the innovative mappings of Galician cultural history found in literary works by and about Galicians in the Anglophone world, paying particular attention to the community of 'London Galicians' and their descendants, in works by artists (Isaac D az Pardo), novelists (Carlos Dur n, Manuel Rivas, Xes s Fraga, Xel s de Toro, Almudena Solana) and poets (Ramiro Fonte, Xavier Queipo, Erin Moure). The central
  • ISBN13 9781846316807
  • Publish Date 20 June 2013
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 13 August 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Liverpool University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 193
  • Language English