期刊名称：Galicia 21 : Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies
印刷版ISSN：2040-7181
电子版ISSN：2040-7181
出版年度：2009
期号：A
出版社：Bangor University
摘要：This edited volume springs from a welcome exercise of (self-)reflexivity in two areas of study that have occasionally lent themselves to clich¨¦d or predisposed attitudes in the cultural and academic fields. On the one hand, and as critics like the book's editors have been stating in their previous work, women's writing has at times been approached in contemporary literary studies as a sort of self-explanatory category, best explained by means of a closed set of analytical tools springing from gender and feminist studies (revisionism, visibility, subversion or socio-political urgency are amongst the most recurrent ones). On the other hand, the comparative framework provided by the Irish and Galician contexts has also been the space in which a variety of stereotyped images, based on an uncritically held discourse of shared affinities, have been granted currency for, perhaps, far too long. That women's writing can be a political literary phenomenon deserving sustained and autonomous attention is something that this book does not refute. Neither does it deny the many analogies that can be observed between Ireland and Galicia historically and which range from their preoccupation with the nation, the tense co-habitation of two languages or the social and political influence that Catholicism has held over the centuries (xix-xx).
