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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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IIntroduction: When Did We Become Sentimental? Colonial Stereotype, National Discourse and Gender in Galicia and Spain Chapter One: Shaping Galician Femininity: Method, Metaphor and Myth in Augusto Gonzalez Besada's Cultural Writing Chapter Two: Purifying the National Model: Questions of Morality and Sentimentality in Eugenio Carre Aldao's Writing Chapter Three: Competing Manhoods: Political Nationalism vs. Sentimental Regionalism in Antonio Couceiro Freijomil Chapter Four: Sexing the National Father: Between Promiscuity and Decorum in Ricardo Carvalho Calero Chapter Five: Breaking Out of the Normal: From Pineirismo to Normalization in Contemporary Galician Culture Afterword: The Man Who Married Galicia: Towards a Postcolonial Critique of Galician Sentimentality

Galicia A Sentimental Nation

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      Publisher University of Wales Press
      Published 15 July 2013
      ISBN-13 9780708326534
      978-0708326534
      ISBN-10 708326536

      Description

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

      Table of Contents
      IIntroduction: When Did We Become Sentimental? Colonial Stereotype, National Discourse and Gender in Galicia and Spain Chapter One: Shaping Galician Femininity: Method, Metaphor and Myth in Augusto Gonzalez Besada's Cultural Writing Chapter Two: Purifying the National Model: Questions of Morality and Sentimentality in Eugenio Carre Aldao's Writing Chapter Three: Competing Manhoods: Political Nationalism vs. Sentimental Regionalism in Antonio Couceiro Freijomil Chapter Four: Sexing the National Father: Between Promiscuity and Decorum in Ricardo Carvalho Calero Chapter Five: Breaking Out of the Normal: From Pineirismo to Normalization in Contemporary Galician Culture Afterword: The Man Who Married Galicia: Towards a Postcolonial Critique of Galician Sentimentality

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