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.
Poetry, gender and transnational bonds: an introduction
págs. 13-30
"Longer and longer sentences prove me wholly female": Medbh McGuckian and feminism(s)
págs. 33-55
Primitive alchemy: alienness in Olga Novo
págs. 57-75
The course of Nature: an ecofeminist reading of contemporary Irish and Galician women poets
págs. 77-96
Dolls, princesses and Cinderellas: new feminine representations in contemporary Galician women's poetry
págs. 97-121
págs. 123-140
Alicia in Galicia: sex and place
págs. 143-153
Irish women and writing: an overview of the journey from imagination into print, 1980-2008
págs. 155-174
págs. 175-193
"Making sense of wilderness" through the written word: an interview with Anne Le Marquand Hartigan
Laura María Lojo Rodríguez (entrev.), Anne Le Marquand Hartigan (entrevistado)
págs. 195-203
Most faithful stories: an interview with Luz Pozo-Garza
María Xesús Nogueira Pereira (entrev.), Luz Pozo Garza (entrevistado)
págs. 205-217
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