VII. Galician Studies

Literature By María Liñeira, Centre for Galician Studies, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, and Montse Pena Presas, University of

This survey covers the years 2006–2009

1. General Important contributions to the study of Galician writers during the and the first decades of Franco dictatorship include: Xesús Alonso Montero, Os escritores galegos ante a guerra civil espa­ ñola (1936–1939): textos e actitudes, Vigo, Galaxia, 2006, 527 pp., the proceedings of the 1999 conference of the same name, and Guerra civil e literatura galega (1936–1939): xornadas de estudo e debate, 1999, ed. Xesús Alonso Montero and Miro Villar, Vigo, Xerais, 2006, 161 pp., a collection of materials from the period distributed during that conference. Examples of the ongoing fascination with epistolaries are Calero, Epistolario a Fernández del Riego, Vigo, Galaxia, 2006, 575 pp., containing letters from 1932 to 1984 and an indispensable source of information about Galician culture in the 20th c. that offers a vivid first-hand image of the first decades of Franco’s dictatorship; and the magnificent Ramón Otero Pedrayo, Cartas á nai, ed. Patricia Arias Chachero and Mónica Pazos Martínez, 2 vols, Vigo, Galaxia, 2007, 694, 632 pp., containing the letters exchanged between O.P. and his mother between 1905 and 1956. It is fundamental not only as an approach to O.P.’s own work, but also to that of his generation and social network. Xesús Alonso Montero, Letras galegas: explicadas (de 1962 a 1980) en ‘Triunfo’ e noutras revistas de fóra de Galicia, Vigo, Xerais, 2008, 208 pp.; Xosé Carlos Caneiro, Os dominios de Caín, Vigo, Galaxia, 2006, 184 pp.; and Xurxo Borrazás, Arte e parte: dos patriarcas á arte suicida, Literature 347 Vigo, Xerais, 2007, 190 pp., are collections of essays which cover a great variety of (mainly) Galician literary topics. Full of interesting insights and bold readings, María López Sández, Paisaxe e nación: a creación discursiva do territorio, Vigo, Galaxia, 2008, 216 pp., is a groundbreaking work that offers a useful frame for the study of how literature contributes to the social construction of landscape. The texts examined are Rosalía de Castro’s Cantares gallegos, Otero Pedrayo’s Arredor de si, and Méndez Ferrín’s ‘ciclo de Tagen Ata’. Los ‘gallegos’ en el imaginario argentino: literatura, sainete, prensa, ed. María Rosa Lojo, Corunna, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, 2008, 456 pp., is an analysis of the stereotypes of the ‘gallego’ in Argentine literature. It concludes that the most common stereotype was that of the humble, hard-working and naïve Galician. Rodríguez, Cultura galega, includes a section on the relation between Brazil and Galicia: see especially M. A. Pérez Rodríguez, ‘Autores brasileiros em empresas editoriais dos exiliados galegos en Bos Aires: Emecé, Nova, Botella al mar’ (349–56). Ánxel Casal: un editor para un país, ed. Alfonso Mato, SC, CCG, 2007, 316 pp.; Francisco Xavier Redondo Abal, O fulgor e as tebras: as bibliotecas na Galiza da II República e a súa destrución durante a Guerra Civil, Bertamiráns, Laiovento, 158 pp.; and C. Patterson, ‘Unha historia de dúas identidades: o diálogo intercultural español en Toledo’, Rodríguez, Cultura galega, 209–18, are valuable contributions to the antebellum cultural history. BHS, 86.2, ed. Helena Miguélez Carballeira and Kirsty Hooper, is a special issue entitled ‘Critical Approaches to the Nation in Galician Studies’. Of particular interest are: M. do C. Rábade Villar, ‘Spectres of the Nation: Forms of Resistance to Literary Nationalism’ (231–47); J. Gabilondo, ‘Towards a Postnational History of Galician Literature: On Pardo Bazán’s Transnational and Translational Position’ (249–69); and H. Miguélez Carballeira, ‘Alternative Values: From the National to the Sentimental in the Redrawing of Galician Literary History’ (271–92). Xesús González Gómez, Manifesta Galiza: manifestos na literatura galega do século XX, Vigo, A Nosa Terra, 2006, 226 pp., and Xulio Pardo de Neyra, Literatura galega de vangarda. A iconoclastia rupturista dos primeiros manifestos, Ames, TresCtres Editores, 2006, 325 pp., look respectively at the phenomenon of the Galician literary manifestos in general and at the avant-garde movement in particular. Xosé Alvilares, Aínda é de noite: literatura galega do século xix e crist­ianismo, Vigo, Sociedade de Estudios, Publicacións e Traballos, 2008, 215 pp., examines the interesting relationship between 19th-c. Galician literature and Christianity.