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

This book contributes to the ongoing discussion of the place of contemporary Galician writer Blanca Andreus work within the 1980s post-nov?simo 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. It provides a detailed textual analysis of her poetry, and in doing so reveals not only that her work encompasses notions of the surreal and the mystical but also, although Andreu has so far written entirely in Castilian (Spanish), that her poetry utilizes a variety of traditional Galician and Portuguese symbols and images. In this way her work challenges the boundaries between what we as readers may accept as a solely Castilian, Galician, or Spanish poetic. It bases its transtheoretical framework on findings from such fields as Galician studies, Iberian studies, mysticism studies, paradigm shift studies, and regional studies over the past two decades. Ultimately, this comprehensive and unique study shows how Andreus multifaceted transnational work may pertain to, and expand, our knowledge of each of these areas of focus.Robert Simon is professor of Spanish and Portuguese and coordinator of Portuguese at Kennesaw State University.

. . .Simon reincorporates Andreu in the Iberian paradigm. Her work is successfully reframed as part of the pos-nov?simo 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 Andreus work contextualized within trans-regional poetic spaces that both questions the place of mylS[