Um poeta galego no fascínio de Portugal

Abstract

We examinate the relationship of the Galician poet Manuel Maria with Portugal, focusing on Poetry and Politics, and the exemplarity of his case drawing on this relationship at publishing, choosing themes for his literature, thinking about the own language and even at thinking about his country. The approach follows three successive stages, following the poet’s life and literary path: rhetorical / literary contact with Portugal, appropriative recognition, continuous self-affirmative return. We conclude that Manuel Maria made a contact that in the surviving Galician nationalist movement after the military coup had been deactivated, circulated literarily and edited with naturalness in Portugal, and that was followed by a recognition and assimilation of the linguistic and cultural affinities, an appropriate identification and a self-affirming return, with literary theme and political/poetic opinions, for example, about the normative spelling for Galician language. A trajectory that reiterates the importance of the reunion of the Galician nationalism’s consciousness with Portugal, and which is linked to the lusist tradition of the Irmandades da Fala.