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- Title: Ideological State Apparatuses in Vilas': Memorias Dun Neno Labrego (Xose Neira Vilas) (Critical Essay)
- Author : Notes on Contemporary Literature
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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Xose Neira Vilas (Gres, Pontevedra 1928) is one of the most recognized and widely read Galician authors of the twentieth century (Galicia is the northwest region of Spain associated with the Celtic culture and regional nationalism). An emigrant during the first part of his life, his trips brought him into contact with important Galician writers and politicians of this period, some of whom established Galician identity and political progress, among them Ramon Suarez Picallo, Rafael Dieste and Luis Seoane. Along with his wife Anisia Miranda, Vilas was an active part of the Cuban revolution, and in 1961 he published one of the most well known Galician novels of the century: Memorias dun neno labrego (A Coruna: Eds. do Castro, 2003). Written during his life in the emigration but set in Galicia, the novel is the first person account of a child living in the Galician countryside during the '50s. Balbino, the protagonist, uses this journal to empty his heart and to criticize the living conditions and struggles of the Galician peasants who live under the control of tyrannical masters and whose only means of survival is to accept a master- slave relationship or to leave and seek fortune elsewhere. Balbino's innocence and sense of justice make this work, according to many critics, a kind of "Galician Manifesto," and the first clear leftist approach to Galician problems and reality. Despite being a child, Balbino sees the unjust social differences between those who have money and power and the rest who have to live under their provisions. Although he never heard the name of Marx, is aware of a society full of prejudices and limited to fulfill the parameters that are convenient for the powerful. Although he never went to a university and is still trying to go to school, Balbino recognizes in society what Althusser saw as the social and economic forces that influence the formation of the classes of production and the institutions, public and private, that enforce those structures.