Writing Galicia into the World New Cartographies, New Poetics / Hooper, Kirsty

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hooper, Kirsty, author.

Series:

Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 5

Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language: history & general works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Other Title:

Liverpool University Press Opening the Future.

Place of Publication:

4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool L69 7ZU Liverpool University Press 2011

Summary:

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 Díaz Pardo), novelists (Carlos Durán, Manuel Rivas, Xesús Fraga, Xelís de Toro, Almudena Solana) and poets (Ramiro Fonte, Xavier Queipo, Erin Mo... Publisher description

Notes:

Description based on publisher's metadata

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

9781781386866

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access