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：2010
期号：B
出版社：Bangor University
摘要：Writing Bonds, the twenty-sixth volume in the series Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas, is dedicated to the emergence of women poets in Ireland and Galicia in the last 30 years. As Irene Gilsenan Nordin, director of the Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies, remarks in her Preface to the collection, this volume is a welcome addition to a body of critical writing that has often focused on well-known mythical links between Ireland and Galicia while overlooking perceptible bonds such as those connecting the work of contemporary female poets. The collection includes a total of ten chapters on the subject and is preceded by an illuminating introduction by the editors, Manuela Palacios and Laura Lojo. 'Poetry, Gender and Transnational Bonds: An Introduction' is tantamount to a chapter in its own right, going far beyond a mere introduction to the compiled essays in order to provide a common critical background from which to approach those writings. The editors start by discussing the most frequently recognised connection between Ireland and Galicia: their common insertion in the Celtic community and the visibility of a supposed Celtic heritage in their culture. They then refer to the social and cultural elements that gave shape to the lives and minds of women in the twentieth century, paying special attention to the influence of religion, linguistic conflict, rural setting or emigration
