Author: Paul R. MagocsiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Language Question in Galicia
Author: Paul R. MagocsiGalicia
Author: Paul R. MagocsiPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802024824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive bibliographic guide to Galicia history.
Regional Nationalism in Spain
Author: Jaine BeswickPublisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1853599794
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This book is about linguistic diversity and language revitalisation in Galicia, one of the autochthonous regions of Spain. By means of historical, linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives, it examines societal language use and institutional support in order to determine the role of the Galician language and loyalty and prestige factors, in expressions of Galician ethnic identity.
Galicia, A Sentimental Nation
Author: Helena Miguélez-CarballeiraPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708326544
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This is the first feminist and postcolonial analysis of Galician cultural nationalism and its relation to the Spanish state and Spanish centralism.
Ukrainian Heritage Notes
Author: Paul R. MagocsiPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Ukrainian Studies Fund
ISBN:
Category : Galicia
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
A Companion to Galician Culture
Author: Helena Miguélez-CarballeiraPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1855662779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
"Of all the differentiated regions comprising contemporary Spain, Galicia is possibly the most deeply marked by political, economic and cultural inequities throughout the centuries. Processes of national construction in the region have been patchily successful. However, Galicia's cultural distinctness is easily recognizable to the observer, from the language spoken in the region to the specific forms of the Galician built landscape, with its mixture of indigenous, imported and hybrid elements. The present volume offers English-language readers an in-depth introduction to the integral aspects of Galician cultural history, from pre-historical times to the present day. Whilst attention is given to the traditional areas of medieval culture, language, contemporary history and politics, the book also privileges compelling contemporary perspectives on cinema, architecture, the city of Santiago de Compostela and the urban qualities of Galician culture today." -- Provided by the publisher.
Galician and Irish in the European Context
Author: B. O'RourkePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230294820
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
An exploration of the role of language attitudes and ideologies in predicting the survival prospects of a minority language. The author examines this role through a cross-national comparative analysis of Irish in the Republic of Ireland and Galician in the Autonomous Community of Galicia in north-west Spain.
Writing Galicia Into the World
Author: Kirsty HooperPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846316677
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Writing Galicia explores a part of Europe’s cultural and social landscape that has until now remained largely unmapped—the exciting body of creative work that, since the 1970s, has emerged as a result of contact between the small Atlantic nation of Galicia and the Anglophone world. Paying particular attention to the community of London Galicians and their descendants, this book traces representations of Galician cultural history through art and close, critical readings of literary works by, among others, Carlos Durán, Manuel Rivas, Xesús Fraga, and Ramiro Fonte. Too often neglected in literary studies, Galician culture is strongly evident throughout Europe’s cultural landscape, and this book allows us to reframe this small Atlantic culture.
Contested Tongues
Author: Laada BilaniukPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801472794
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
During the controversial 2004 elections that led to the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine, cultural and linguistic differences threatened to break apart the country. Contested Tongues explains the complex linguistic and cultural politics in a bilingual country where the two main languages are closely related but their statuses are hotly contested. Laada Bilaniuk finds that the social divisions in Ukraine are historically rooted, ideologically constructed, and inseparable from linguistic practice. She does not take the labeled categories as givens but questions what "Ukrainian" and "Russian" mean to different people, and how the boundaries between these categories may be blurred in unstable times.Bilaniuk's analysis of the contemporary situation is based on ethnographic research in Ukraine and grounded in historical research essential to understanding developments since the fall of the Soviet Union. "Mixed language" practices (surzhyk) in Ukraine have generally been either ignored or reviled, but Bilaniuk traces their history, their social implications, and their accompanying ideologies. Through a focus on mixed language and purism, the author examines the power dynamics of linguistic and cultural correction, through which people seek either to confer or to deny others social legitimacy. The author's examination of the rapid transformation of symbolic values in Ukraine challenges theories of language and social power that have as a rule been based on the experience of relatively stable societies.
Galicia, A Sentimental Nation
Author: Helena Miguélez-CarballeiraPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783165677
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Galicia, a non-state nation in north-west Spain, has often been portrayed as a sentimental nation, a misty land of poets and legends. This book offers the first study of this trope as a feminizing, colonial stereotype that has marked Galician cultural history since the late nineteenth century. Through a close reading of the main texts of Galician literary history, the author shows how this trope has helped sustain the unequal power relation between Galicia and the Spanish State. As a consequence, questions of masculinity, morality and respectability have played an essential role in Galicia's national construction, thereby enforcing a masculine definition and limiting the role of women. This book argues for a revision of the main texts of Galician cultural nationalism through a gender and postcolonial perspective, showing that contemporary portrayals of Galician history are dependent on the politically debilitating trope of Galician sentimentality.