Contemporary Galician Cultural Studies
Between the Local and the Global
- Editors: Kirsty Hooper, Manuel Puga Moruxa
- Pages: xiv & 344 pp.
- Published: 2011
- ISBN: 9781603290883 (Paperback)
- ISBN: 9781603290876 (Hardcover)
“[A]n eloquent and effective argument for the persistence of Galician studies as an academic field outside of Galicia or Spain. . . . [T]his collection of essays has in mind the Anglophone academic readership and, especially, students and scholars in comparative cultural and literary studies.”
—Hispania
Galicia occupies an ambiguous position, at the crossroads between land and sea, the Atlantic north and the Mediterranean south, Spanish and Portuguese. For two centuries, its nationhood was ignored or disputed and its people migrated in great numbers to the Americas. What it means to be Galician, therefore, is a central question—particularly now, given Galicia’s new autonomy and today’s trends of globalization and pluralism.
In this first English-language collection of analyses of Galician culture and identity, many aspects of galeguidade—Galicianness—are explored. Among them are the nineteenth-century Rexurdimento and Rosalía de Castro’s championing of and conflict with Galician nationalism, the status of Galician as a separate language, the attractions and problems of television series that express a utopian nostalgia, the continuing importance of Galician-language poetry and folk music, and challenges to Galician tradition by the postmodern avant-gardes after 1975.
Burghard Baltrusch
Silvia Bermúdez
Jaine Beswick
José Colmeiro
Lourenzo Fernández Prieto
Antón Figueroa
Joseba Gabilondo
Laura López Fernández
Timothy McGovern
Marta Pérez Pereiro
María do Cebreiro Rábade Villar
María Reimóndez
Eugenia R. Romero
John Patrick Thompson
Preface to the Series (xi)
Acknowledgments (xiii)
Introduction: Galician Geographies (1)
Part 1: Histories
Introduction (19)
Interpreting Galician History: The Recent Construction of an Unknown Past (24)
National Literature and the Literary Field (40)
Cultural History and Resistance: The Articulation of Modern Galician Literature (54)
Toward a Postnational History of Galician Literature: Rereading Rosalía de Castro’s Narrative as Atlantic Modernism (74)
Part 2: Identities
Introduction (99)
The Other Galicia: Construction of National Identity through Absence (104)
Galician-Spanish-British? Migrant Identification Practices, Transnationalism, and Invisibility in Guildford, England (125)
Portuguese or Spanish Orthography for the Galizan Language? An Analysis of the Conflito Normativo (143)
Camping Up the Nation: Antón Lopo’s Ganga and the Queering of Iberia (166)
Part 3: Cultural Practices
Introduction (185)
Whose Heritage Is It, Anyway? Cultural Planning and Practice in Contemporary Galicia (190)
Imagining Galician Cinema: Utopian Visions? (202)
Utopian Identity in Galician Television Programming: Nostalgia as Ideology in the Series Made by Televisión de Galicia (221)
The Postmodern Avant-Gardes in Post-1975 Galician Literature: Rompente, Antón Reixa, and Suso de Toro (237)
Modes of Representation in Galician Visual Poetry (258)
Remapping Galician Narrative for the Twenty-First Century (272)
Poetry and Performance: The Renewal of the Public Sphere in Present-Day Galicia (289)
Glossary (305)
Notes on Contributors (307)
Works Cited (311)
Index (335)
“Essential for the instructor offering classes or seminars in the topic. It is scholarly, thorough, and thought provoking. A groundbreaking book.”
—Cristina Moreiras-Menor, University of Michigan
“[The volume] represents the perfect starting point for the discussion of the Galician culture and identity.”
—Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
“[This title] epitomizes the good health of the discipline and its continuous development at both a national and international level. Its contributors offer new parameters to understand Galician culture in the present world that will be interesting for both undergraduate and postgraduate students who start a fascinating journey to discover Galicia and its culture, as well as to specialists in the field.”
—Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
