Galicia, A Sentimental Nation. Helena Miguélez-Carballeira

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      IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

       Galicia, a Sentimental Nation

       Series Editors

      Professor David George (Swansea University)

      Professor Paul Garner (University of Leeds)

       Editorial Board

      David Frier (University of Leeds)

      Lisa Shaw (University of Liverpool)

      Gareth Walters (Swansea University)

      Rob Stone (University of Birmingham)

      David Gies (University of Virginia)

      Catherine Davies (University of Nottingham)

      Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds)

      IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

       Galicia, a Sentimental Nation

       Gender, Culture and Politics

      HELENA MIGUÉLEZ-CARBALLEIRA

      © Helena Miguélez-Carballeira, 2013

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       British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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      ISBN 978-0-7083-2653-4

      eISBN 978-1-78316-567-4

      The right of Author to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      The publication of this book has been made possible through a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (FFI2009–08475/FILO) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship Scheme.

      Cover image: promotional film poster for Carmiña, flor de

      Galicia (1926), reproduced by permission of the CGAI

      (Galician Centre for the Visual Arts).

       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

       Chapter 1: Shaping Galician femininity: method, metaphor and myth in Augusto González Besada’s cultural writing

       Chapter 2: Purifying the national model: questions of morality and sentimentality in Eugenio Carré Aldao’s writing

       Chapter 3: Competing manhoods: political nationalism versus sentimental regionalism in Antonio Couceiro Freijomil

       Chapter 4: Sexing the national father: between promiscuity and decorum in Ricardo Carvalho Calero

       Chapter 5: Breaking out of the normal: from piñeirismo to normalization in contemporary Galician culture

       Afterword: The man who married Galicia: towards a postcolonial critique of Galician sentimentality

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Series editors’ foreword

      Over recent decades the traditional ‘languages and literatures’ model in Spanish departments in universities in the United Kingdom has been superseded by a contextual, interdisciplinary and ‘area studies’ approach to the study of the culture, history, society and politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds – categories that extend far beyond the confines of the Iberian Peninsula, not only in Latin America but also to Spanish-speaking and Lusophone Africa.

      In response to these dynamic trends in research priorities and curriculum development, this series is designed to present both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research within the general field of Iberian and Latin American Studies, particularly studies that explore all aspects of Cultural Production (inter alia literature, film, music, dance, sport) in Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Catalan, Galician and indigenous languages of Latin America. The series also aims to publish research in the History and Politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds, at the level of both the region and the nation-state, as well as on Cultural Studies that explore the shifting terrains of gender, sexual, racial and postcolonial identities in those same regions.

       Acknowledgements

      I wish to thank Bangor University for granting me two study leave periods in 2009 and 2012, during which I could conduct essential research for this book. I would not have been able to finalize it on time had it not been for the generous AHRC Fellowship I was awarded in 2012. A very special word of thanks goes to all my colleagues at the School of Modern Languages at Bangor University. I could not think of a better, kinder team of people with whom to work.

      My heartfelt gratitude goes to Kirsty Hooper, without whose enthusiastic encouragement and intellectual support many of the ideas in this book would have taken a lot longer to form. Also, I am grateful to John Rutherford, whose expert criticism helped me revise the book before it went to the publisher. I am intellectually indebted to the work of other scholars in Hispanic and Galician Studies, including Andrew Ginger, Manuela Palacios, María Liñeira and María do Cebreiro Rábade Villar. A million thanks also go to Linda C. Jones and Jennifer Green at Bangor University, to Ana Andrade at the Biblioteca Xeral of the University of Santiago de Compostela and to Sarah Lewis at the University of Wales Press, for their immense help at several stages in the revision process.

      I hope that the various colleagues above do not mind me confessing that, despite their generous guidance, writing this book has been a fairly solitary affair for me. Becoming the person who could write it, however, has been possible only thanks to the many inspiring people I have been lucky enough to meet thus far.

      For changing the geographies of my life forever I thank Ottavio Croze. I would not be where I am today – quite literally – had it not been for his vision.

      For their fierce intelligence, their critical spirit and the conversations they still choose to have with me, I thank Suso Vázquez Gómez, Sofía García Pitart, Yolanda Pérez González, María Filippakopoulou, Athanasía Theodoropoulou, Anna Hatzidaki, Rosalía Rodríguez Vázquez and María Reimóndez.

      For