O estereotipo antigalego na literatura española modernaxénese, desenvolvemento e consolidación

Abstract

Under the title The anti-Galician stereotype in modern Spanish literature: genesis, development and consolidation, this doctoral thesis analyses the negative image associated with Galicia and the Galician people in the Spanish literary production between the 16th and the 19th centuries. In order to integrate the different reflections and studies dedicated to the anti-Galician sentiment and to the modern anti-Galician stereotype, especially numerous since the second half of the 20th century, this research is developed within the framework of multidisciplinary approach to this stereotypical phenomenon through an eminently heterogeneous documentary corpus. From this perspective, those postulates and theories emanating from social psychology acquire special significance in this study, since they allow us to draw parallels between the Galician case and other ethnic and/or national groups, particularly in the field of centre-periphery relations. In addition to manifesting the existence of a stereotype of the “Other”, marked by fundamentally negative characteristics from a social point of view, the textual analysis points to a confluence of various cultural, socio-economic and political factors as the origin and conformation of the modern anti-Galician stereotype. The influence exerted by these elements on the Collective Castilian imaginary, and later Spanish, as well as its determinative context, leads us to a global understanding of the anti-Galician stereotype through different stages and/or periods.