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Title: Writing Bonds

Writing Bonds

Irish and Galician Contemporary Women Poets

by Manuela Palacios (Volume editor) Laura Lojo Rodriguez (Volume editor)
©2009 Edited Collection 232 Pages
English Studies
Series: Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas, Volume 26

Summary

This book focuses on the emergence of women poets from the 1980s to the present in both Ireland and Galicia. Departing from common ground in shared myths and comparable political and social circumstances, each contributor to this volume looks into central aspects of Irish and Galician identity issues, which range from configurations of the nation, nature and feminine paradigms, to the poets’ elaborations on their own literary practice. The comparative approach followed shows both that questions raised in one community can find relevant answers in the other and that reciprocal knowledge helps to disseminate the writers’ work – and the criticism of it – beyond their respective national borders. This collection of essays and interviews also provides both poets and critics with a mutual space in which to voice their concerns, thus bringing down the barrier that is often raised artificially between these two literary activities.

Details

Pages
232
Year
2009
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039118342
Language
English
Keywords
Feminine Paradigms Myths Essays and interviews Women Poets
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2009. 232 pp.

Biographical notes

Manuela Palacios (Volume editor) Laura Lojo Rodriguez (Volume editor)

The Editors: Manuela Palacios is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She has directed the national research project ‘Poetry and Gender: Contemporary Irish and Galician Women Poets’. Her publications include translations of European poetry and narrative, monographs on Virginia Woolf’s pictorial imagery and Shakespeare’s Richard III, journal articles on ecocriticism, translation studies and twentieth-century writers, and book chapters on literature, the visual arts and women’s studies. Laura Lojo is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She is the author of a book on Virginia Woolf’s short fiction along with several book chapters and essays in literary journals on varied topics, such as the reception of British modernism in Spanish-speaking countries, Irish women’s poetry, women’s studies and comparative literature.

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