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Abstract

This paper examined the poetic characteristics of Spain’s leading female poet Rosalía de Castro in the late 19th century and attempted to shed new light on it from the perspective of minority’s writing. Despite the outstanding value of her poetry, she was overlooked in the Spanish literary circle for a long time after her death, but began to be reevaluated in the late 20th century by the efforts of several literary figures, and is now recognized as one of Spain’s leading poets. As for the reason for the delay in acceptance of her, there has been a confrontation between a feminist view of explaining it as deep-rooted gender discrimination against women in Spain, and a nationalist view of explaining it as mainstream society’s rejection of her who represented the voices of Galician people, which have long been politically, economically, and culturally marginalized in Spain, and revived Galicia’s literature. This study attempted to give a integral light to the complex aspects and characteristics of her poetic discourse by integrating this into the perspective of minority’s writing. In addition to the two elements mentioned above, she was born as a daughter of a priest and went through a depressing childhood enduring the social prejudice and coldness for the reason of so-called defective family. So she was a victim of social discrimination of normal family and abnormal family. As a result, her consciousness of alienation as a socially marginal person and an outsider became a key factor in constructing her minority consciousness. She described and overcame her humble reality as minority through poems that were sometimes critical and sometimes dreamlike and symbolic. So this study examined the significance of Rosalía de Castro’s post-romantic and existential poetry by exploring the relation of minority writing’s characteristics and her poetry’s unique values.