Galicia, A Sentimental Nation
Gender, Culture and Politics
Distributed for University of Wales Press
Galicia, A Sentimental Nation
Gender, Culture and Politics
320 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Iberian and Latin American Studies
History: European History
Literature and Literary Criticism: Romance Languages

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