Blanca Andreu, Galicia, and the New Iberian Mysticism: From Post-Mortem to Post-Mystic

by Robert Simon

Overview

This book contributes to the ongoing discussion of the place of contemporary Galician writer Blanca Andreu’s work within the 1980s post-"novísimo" movement, as part of a larger resurgence of the Surrealist in Spanish poetry and its possible placement in the more recent mystical poetry of Spain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498565714
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	01/15/2019
Pages:	142
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Robert Simon is professor of Spanish and Portuguese and coordinator of Portuguese at Kennesaw State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction: Paradigm Shifts and Iberia’s Evolution: A Transtheoretical Framework for the Poetry of Blanca Andreu Chapter I: A New Iberian Mysticism Chapter II: The Revived Galician Poetic Chapter III: The Beginning of the Surrealist Mystic in De una niña de provincias que vino a vivir en un Chagall Chapter IV: The Mystic’s World: Mystical Symbolism and Luso-Galician Identity in La tierra transparente Chapter V: The Re-incorporation of Blanca Andreu’s poetry in the Paradigm Shift Appendix Works Cited Index About the Author

Editorial Reviews

A thoughtful engagement with the unique and understudied poetic voice of Blanca Andreu, placing her production at the intersection between Iberian and Galician Studies. Situated in both the postmodern and the post-mystic, yet escaping both of them, Andreu’s poetic work crosses epistemic and linguistic barriers and transcends essentialist conceptions of identity. Robert Simon shows that the semantic density of her poetry is pivotal for rethinking contemporary Spanish cultures.

Benita Sampedro Vizcaya

.. .Simon reincorporates Andreu in the Iberian paradigm. Her work is successfully reframed as part of the pos-novísimo generation of female writers and within the multiple self-identities in contemporary Spain. Combining of the mystical process with deconstruction is a uniquely Iberian discourse of the 1980s and after, and the author successfully outlines the goals of the field as it addresses the inadequacies of purely national literary canons, and he demonstrates this through his study of Andreu, as there is a complexity to literary phenomena extending beyond the nation.

Hispania

A clearly written and comprehensive analysis of Andreu’s work contextualized within trans-regional poetic spaces that both questions the place of mysticism in modern Iberian poetry and studies what elements define an artist and their work as truly “Galician.” Undoubtedly a worthwhile addition to the fields of peninsular gender studies as well as Galician cultural studies.

María Elena Soliño

A clearly written and comprehensive analysis of Andreu’s work contextualized within trans-regional poetic spaces that both questions the place of mysticism in modern Iberian poetry and studies what elements define an artist and their work as truly “Galician.” Undoubtedly a worthwhile addition to the fields of peninsular gender studies as well as Galician cultural studies.

María Elena Soliño