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Informationen zum Autor Kirsty Hooper is a Lecturer in Spanish and Galician at the University of Liverpool. She is author of 'A Stranger in My Own Land: Sofía Casanova, a Spanish Writer in the European fin de siècle' (Vanderbilt University Press) and co-editor with Manuel Puga Moruxa of 'Contemporary Galician Cultural Studies: Between the Local and the Global' (Modern Language Association, 2010). Klappentext "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 that! since the 1970s! has emerged as a result of contact between the small Atlantic nation of Galicia and the Anglophone world. Paying particular attention to the community of London Galicians and their descendants! this book traces representations of Galician cultural history through art and close! critical readings of literary works by! among others! Carlos Duran! Manuel Rivas! Xesus Fraga! and Ramiro Fonte. Too often neglected in literary studies! Galician culture is strongly evident throughout Europe's cultural landscape! and this book allows us to reframe this small Atlantic culture. Zusammenfassung 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.
