A casa do amo: Unha análise do discurso colonial e racista na literatura galega

by María Reimóndez, Ana Luna Alonso, Alberto Alvarez Lugris

A finais dos anos setenta, a escritora feminista negra lesbiana estadounidense Audre Lorde resumía a súa crítica ao feminismo branco coa famosa frase: «As ferramentas do amo nunca desmantelarán a casa do amo». A súa mensaxe ecoa aínda hoxe en diferentes movementos supostamente transformadores nos que se deixa de lado unha crítica en profundidade ás estruturas coloniais e racistas, ás «ferramentas do amo». Galicia en xeral e a literatura galega en particular ocupan un interesante lugar gonzo, dado que por unha banda se sitúan nunha posición non hexemónica a certos niveis, mais non deixan de ser unha nación e un sistema literario formulados dende as bases da branquitude e a continuidade colonial. É tempo de analizar a nosa casa coma a casa do amo e revisar as nosas complicidades coloniais. Este volume ofrece unha panorámica sobre as teorías decoloniais e antirracistas que se usan aquí para deitar unha ollada crítica a diversos textos que, lonxe de pretender constituírse en catálogo, buscan interpelarnos para transformar os alicerces da casa de xeito que absolutamente todas as persoas teñamos acubillo nela.

152 pages, Paperback

First published March 7, 2024

About the author

María Reimóndez Meilán was born in Lugo and is a professional translator and interpreter. Her first book published is the poetry collection Moda Galega (Edicións Positivas, 2002). In 2003 she was awarded the Premio de Novela Mulleres Progresistas de Vigo for the novel O Caderno de Bitácora (Edicións Positivas 2004). In 2005 she was short-listed for the awards Premio Merlín de Literatura Infantil for Usha (Edicións Xerais, 2006) and Xerais for O club da calceta (Xerais 2006), which was later awarded the Premio San Clemente and translated into Italian and Spanish, adapted to theatre by Teatro do Morcego and to film by Ficción Producciones.

She has also published six books for children on different Galician counties with Editorial Everest. Recently, she also published Lía e as zapatillas de deporte (Xerais 2008), Premio Frei Martín Sarmiento 2010 and O Monstro das palabras(Xerais 2009) for children, and Pirata (Xerais 2009) for adults. Reimóndez is also a well established literary translator, especially of children’s literature with over twelve books published, besides Erín Moure’s poetry collection Teatriños or the theatre play Kvetch staged in Galician by Teatro do Morcego . In 2011 she published Despois da medianoitea translation of Tamil author Salma’s The Hour Past Mid-Night. In 2009 she was granted the translation award Plácido Castro for her translation of A historia de Mary Prince, unha escrava das Illas Occidentais. In 2012 her first book as an essayist will be published in co-authorship with Olga Castro – Feminismos is an overview of feminist theories around the world. Already in 2010 Reimóndez published a chapter on the symbolic violence of literary criticism against Galician women writers in the volume Violencias visibles, violencias invisibles with the Feminario de Investigación Feminismos e Resistencias. (Icaría 2010). Also in 2010 she was writer-in-residence at Bangor University (Wales, UK), where she lectured on translation, writing and literature and she also did a reading of Pirata in London. She has also been invited to the University of Stirling and Munich and in 2011 she was one of the guests of the artist’s house Villa Waldberta in Munich, invited by the Instituto Cervantes of the city for their Autumn cultural programme.