CAHSS Faculty Presentations, Proceedings, Lectures, and Symposia
Title
Somos Galegos: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Regionalist Galician Literature
Event Name
Lifelong Learning Institute
Event Location
Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Department
Department of Literature and Modern Languages
Document Type
Symposium
Presentation Date
3-15-2012
Description
Since medieval times, Spain’s northwestern region, Galicia, has maintained a distinct language and culture. In this talk, I will give a short historical background of Galicia and then center on a literary movement that developed in this region during the 19th and early 20th centuries. I will present some of this period’s most important writers and their works and show how these writers, which included poets, novelists and historians, resorted to factual and/or fabricated histories to prove their uniqueness from non-Galician Spaniards, and to simultaneously combat Castilian cultural hegemony in the region.
NSUWorks Citation
Fuentes, Yvette, "Somos Galegos: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Regionalist Galician Literature" (2012). CAHSS Faculty Presentations, Proceedings, Lectures, and Symposia. 40.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cahss_facpres/40
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