Eco Artivism in Galician Feminist Fiction: Teresa Moure's A intervención (2010)
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Barbour, Catherine, Eco Artivism in Galician Feminist Fiction: Teresa Moure's A intervención (2010). In Kate Averis, Margaret Littler and Godela Weiss-Sussex, Interpreting Communities: Minor, Minority and Small Literatures in Europe, Cambridge, Legenda - Modern Humanities Research Association, 2023Download Item:
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If small literatures have been consistently banished to the margins of history, their
women’s voices have been doubly silenced. Narrative by women writing in the
language of Galician from the non-state Atlantic nation of Galicia in north-western
Spain represents a case in point, demonstrating the persistent and multifaceted
tensions between language, nation, gender and genre. In this essay, through analysis
of the 2010 novel A intervención [The Intervention] by influential writer Teresa Moure
(born Monforte de Lemos, 1969), I examine how creativity is presented as a form of
resistance to the heteropatriarchal neoliberal order of the nation-state, demonstrating
how women in minoritised linguistic and cultural contexts write against the
hegemonic social, political, environmental and economic discourses that have
endeavoured to stifle them. Defying the binds relating to their linguistic, cultural and
literary heritage, as well as their gender, many contemporary women writers of fiction
in Galician have set out to defy state hegemony and reclaim space in the historically
patriarchal Galician literary sphere, renegotiating and redefining discourses of
Galician culture more generally.
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