Orientación y lugar en la escritura de Rosalía de Castro. La función del lugar americano

Abstract

Orientation and Locus in the Narrative Writing of Rosalía de Castro. The Function of American Referentiality. This article explores the relationship between the narrative work of Rosalía de Castro, a woman writer customarily identified with the emergence of modern Galician literature, and the American space. This area acquired an undeniable significance from the point of view of the diffusion of the poetry of Rosalía, but perhaps the importance of repeated American presences of very different character throughout her work in prose has not been appreciated in the same way. Imaginary geographies, and characters such as migrants, returnees, the public man, the criolla or the Yankee help to identify a less self-absorbed narrative world than has often been considered. But, on the other hand, the transatlantic referentiality hinted to by Castro is far from non problematical. It reveals a number of spatial tensions, which contribute to the appreciation of a controversial and complex work.