Full Description
Beyond Sentidiño: New Diasporic Reflections on Galician Culture is an interdisciplinary study of Galician literature, languages, and cultures. The volume brings together essays from fields across the humanities and social sciences to foster a discussion that incorporates new concepts that, as of now, are not part of the imaginary of Galiza: gentrification, language imperialism, youth unemployment, deruralization and deindustrialization, media control, technocapitalism, and gender and sexual normativity. It also serves to moderate a conversation about how independence from the political, material, and sociocultural networks of autonomic Galiza allows diasporic scholars to think of Galician culture in a de-essentializing manner. Working and living in the diaspora provides a lens through which to unmask the hegemonic neocolonial and neoliberal representation and reproduction of Galicianness promoted by different social, political, and mediatic powers.
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. An Introd-action to Contemporary Galician Culture: Publics, Critics, Challenges
Laura Lesta García and Daniel Amarelo
Part I. Beyond Stasis: Galicianness on the Move
2. Songs of Migration: Toward a Poetics of (Un)happiness in Galician Pop Music (1969-1980)
David Miranda-Barreiro
3. Galicia sitio distinto?: Music in Galicia during the Transition
Alicia Pajón Fernández
4. Así fai o quen ben baila: Galician Dance and Cultural Identity
Kalee Rose Prendergast
Part II. Beyond the Tradition: New Normativities, Old Resistances
5. Queering the Nation: Alternative Sexual Identities in Contemporary Galician Cinema
José Colmeiro
6. Ethnographic Elegies of Resistance in Current Galician Literature: Emilio Araúxo's Seica Si and Mal mor
Miriam Sánchez Moreiras
Part III. Beyond the Border: Bridges, Contacts, Cross-fertilizations
7. Teaching Galician in North American Higher Education
Laura Lesta García
8. Galician, a Language into Lusophony?
Xoán Carlos Lagares
9. Galician World Literature? Born-Translated Fiction and the Construction of GalicianCculture in English
Laura Linares
Part IV. Beyond Institutionality: Uploading the Future
10. Imagining Galicia: Identity Politics, Cultural Practices, and "Terrace which Looks on Another Thing Beyond"
Paula Godinho
11. Politics and Culture in Contemporary Galiza: The Xacobeo 2021-22
Cristina Martínez Tejero
12. Memesphere as a Counterpublic: Fake Instagram Accounts of Galician City Councils and the Contestation of Institutional Understandings of Community
Daniel Amarelo
Afterword
13. Dirty Hands: The Old Through the New and the Collateral Effects of Overexposure in the Cultural Context of Non-Urban Galicia
Ángel Calvo Ulloa
Index
