Alternative Genealogies? History and the Dilemma of "Origin" in Two Recent Novels By Galician Women

Hooper, Kirsty

doi:10.1353/hcs.2007.0024

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Sete Palabras and The Novel Of The Rexurdimento1

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“…The narrator realizes that another story is possible, one in which his grandmother «[p]ode ser vista como unha heroína abandonada» (2009: 295). Although this heroine remains at the margins, it seems relevant that de Toro's patriarchal novel does recognize the sexism that has rendered the feminine invisible within discussions of national literary identity, an idea that reflects those of critics such as Hooper (2006b) and Miguélez-Carballeira (2013).…”

Section: Sete Palabras and The Novel Of The Rexurdimentomentioning

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Galicia, or the Spurious Child: Illegitimate Origins in the Modern Novel

Barreto

2015

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The present article uses Suso de Toro's Sete palabras as a starting point for analyzing the protagonism of illegitimate children in the Galician novel since the Rexurdimento. Considered in a historical context and as a literary trope, the illegitimate child can be read as an expression of anxiety around a national identity rested upon a notion of purity, be it linguistic, ethnic or territorial. These unclear origins, rather than preclude the possibility of identity formation and history-individual or collective-can serve as a source for alternative histories and identities.

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confidence: 99%