1. MUJERES MIGRANTES GALLEGAS EN LA ARGENTINA: UNA APROXIMACIÓN A SU EXPERIENCIA A TRAVÉS DE LA "LITERATURA DE EMIGRACIÓN" (SIGLO XX).
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Farías, Ruy
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY , *FAMILY reunification , *AUTUMN , *EVERYDAY life , *TWENTIETH century , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *BIOGRAPHY (Literary form) - Abstract
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]
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- 2022
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