Contents
Series editors’ foreword
Acknowledgements
Note to the reader
Introduction: When did we become sentimental? Colonial stereotype, national discourse and gender in Galicia and Spain
Chapter 1: Shaping Galician femininity: method, metaphor and myth in Augusto González Besada’s cultural writing
Chapter 2: Purifying the national model: questions of morality and sentimentality in Eugenio Carré Aldao’s writing
Chapter 3: Competing manhoods: political nationalism versus sentimental regionalism in Antonio Couceiro Freijomil
Chapter 4: Sexing the national father: between promiscuity and decorum in Ricardo Carvalho Calero
Chapter 5: Breaking out of the normal: from piñeirismo to normalization in contemporary Galician culture
Afterword: The man who married Galicia: towards a postcolonial critique of Galician sentimentality
Notes
Bibliography
