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This paper reviews the tension between presencia común [common spaces] and amazement which shape José Manuel Arango's poetry. On one hand, this tension embodies the poet's subjective experience and on the other hand reality as the essential feature of his poetry. As one of his interpreter states that Cantiga (1987) is a rewritten work of two previous poems, this paper suggests a critical review from the context of his writing to the theoretical framework regarding common spaces. The result of this research shows that Cantiga determines a poet inserted in the world plentily observed by him and then names it. From this point of view, this José Manuel Arango's work expresses the division between the poetic subject and the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Women are a fundamental historical subject of the Galician overseas migrations, being Argentina the most important American destination, where hundreds of thousands lived, worked, and preserved their culture and transmitted it. However, migratory studies have tended to invisibilize their specific dynamics and experiences as they were traditionally seeing either as mere companions of their countrymen or part of a family reunification phenomena. This misrepresentation complicated the understanding of their reality giving rise to stereotypes and to the undervaluation of their role in the migration process. Therefore, it is necessary to advance in the study of their individual as well as collective realities and experiences to make visible the changes in their daily lives, to which emigration could have given rise. This paper explores the potential that a series of sources considered "emigration literature" in the twentieth century have to that end, including biographies, autobiographies and fictional autobiographies, collective books of testimonies, essays, stories based on real experiences, among other sources that fall under what is called "migration literature." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]