ALFREDO GUISADO AND GALICIA: FROM EL TEA TO XENTE D’A ALDEA

Abstract

The present paper focuses on dialogical relationships stablished by Alfredo Pedro Guisado’s poetry with the emergent Galician literary system, consolidated by the groups Irmandades da Fala and Xeración Nós. I focus on texts the author has published in Galician journals, such as El Tea and A Nosa Terra, creation laboratories of the book Xente d’a aldea (1921). I use concepts of dialogism by Mikhail Bakhtin, according to whom every discourse replies to previous ones, developing alive and tense relations with them; as well as the concept of literary system, present in authors such as Antonio Candido and Itamar Even-Zohar, who understand the literature as a network of interdependent elements. Based on that methodological proposal, I analyze three important issues in Guisado’s production, connected among them: the rural-pantheistic repertoire, worship to Rosalía de Castro (1837-1885) and Teixeira de Pascoaes (1877-1952); the acting in the agrarian and republican weekly newspaper El Tea as discoursive arena for a rural workers’ poetry of claim; the approximation with Galician artists and the consequent construction of the imaginary about the united relationship between Galice and Portugal, following Teixeira de Pascoaes’s philosophy of Saudade.