«To My Bleak, Shabby, and Cold Abode». Post-Place, State and Literature: the House of Rosalía de Castro

Authors

  • Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza University of Santiago de Compostela

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.201843068

Keywords:

Literary Geography, Post-Place, Writer's houses, Rosalía Castro, En las orillas del Sar

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to reflect upon what we propose to term as literary ‘post-place’. A representative case is laid out: that of the house in A Matanza (Padrón, Spain), where Rosalía Castro died in 1885, and which has been serving as a museum and Foundation dedicated to the author’s life since 1972. Literary post-places are here defined as figures of public memory –commemorative sites that served as a backdrop for fictional or biographical events (very frequently related with an author’s life) that have had important literary implications. In this light, post-place can be quite revealing of the connections linking the State and the institutionalisation of literary works and authors. To elucidate these processes, the controversial relationship between A Matanza and Castro’s last book Beside the River Sar (En las orillas del Sar, 1884) will be analysed.

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Published

2018-10-02

How to Cite

Cabo Aseguinolaza, F. (2018). «To My Bleak, Shabby, and Cold Abode». Post-Place, State and Literature: the House of Rosalía de Castro. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (4), 138–160. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.201843068