Publications

De fala a lingua is an anthology of a decade’s worth of articles and essays by Pilar García Negro, examining the state of the Galician language. The book is arranged in chronological order, beginning with an article from 2000 in which the author poses the still timely question: What did Galician ever do to anybody? The title of the article in the original Galician plays on the double meaning and persistent symbolism and metonymy of the word galego: the Galician language and the Galician nation. Who would be ‘better off’ without Galicia and the single most important external manifestation of its being? Will the desire to halt its own self-extinction as a nation be enough to prevail against the devastating alliance of past and present colonisation and native self-loathing?