Xuízas e testemuñas. O papel da creación literaria nos procesos de construción da identidade

Abstract

This paper intends to explore the after-effects of the alliancebetween criticism and literary activity in the recent poetical productionby women in Galicia. In order to do that, I will start from thehypothesis that indicates how within societies such as the Galicianone, the construction of national and gender identities is in need ofa collusion with both dimensions, quite often knotted in the sameagents. It is possible, from Rosalía de Castro until Chus Pato, to verifymultiple grades of participation of women writers within the criticand media scope. The showing of this double condition of “witnessesand judges” within the written production by women poetsimplies quite often the emergence in their production of textualmechanisms of resistance or opposition to those places of criticismwherein they were located. Usually ignored or minimised in the interpretation of their poetry, this alliance between criticism and creationhas got poetical and political consequences which must beexplored in detail.