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This book-aimed at both the general reader and the specialist-offers a transatlantic, transnational, and multidisciplinary cartography of the rapidly expanding intellectual field of Galician Studies. In the twenty-one essays that comprise the volume, leading scholars based in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand engage with this field from the perspectives of queer theory, Atlantic and diasporic thought, political ecology, hydropoetics, theories of space, trauma and memory studies, exile, national/postnational approaches, linguistic ideologies, ethnographic poetry and photography, Galician language in the US academic curriculum, the politics of children's books, film and visual studies, the interrelation of painting and literature, and material culture. Structured around five organizational categories (Frames, Routes, Readings, Teachings, and Visualities), and adopting a pluricentric view of Galicia as an analytical subject of study, the book brings cutting-edge debates in Galician Studies to a broad international readership.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Rerouting Galician Studies: Intellectual Cartographies of the United States.- Chapter 2: Putting Queerness on the Map: Notes for a Queer Galician Studies.- Chapter 3: Blue Atlantic: Gilroy and Galicia.- Chapter 4: Cultures of Nature in Mid-Twentieth-Century Galicia.- Chapter 5: Ríos, Fontes, Peiraos, Océanos: Hydropoetics and the Galician Cultural Imagination.- Chapter 6: The Production of Galician Space: Ethnographic Interventions.- Chapter 7: From the Island of Trauma to Fantasy Island: The Renovation of San Simón.- Chapter 8: Xoán González Millán and the Present Uses of the Past: Notes from a Study on Exile.- Chapter 9: Places / Non-Places: Galicia on the Road of St. James.- Chapter 10: Peripheral Systems, Doctrinal Enforcement and the Future of Galician Studies.- Chapter 11: The Master Signifier of Galician culture: Manuel Fraga and Undemocratic, Affective Populism.- Chapter 12: C
astelao: Nationalism, Federalism, and the Postcolonial.- Chapter 13: Stage and History in O incerto señor don Hamlet.- Chapter 14: The Perceived Presence / Absence of Galician Accent on Galician TV Newscasts.- Chapter 15: Teaching Galicia in Appalachia: Lessons from Anthropology, Ethnographic Poetry, Documentary Photography and Political Theory.- Chapter 16: Galician Studies, Language and Linguistics within U.S. Academic Curricula.- Chapter 17: O monstro das palabras: Reframing Rosalía de Castro's role for Future Generations.- Chapter 18: Trace and De-Familiarization in Contemporary Documentary (Víctor Erice and Eloy Enciso Cachafeiro).- Chapter 19: Galician Animation in the Global Age: Imagining the Nation from the Glocal Forest.- Chapter 20: Moving Beyond the Frame: Literature, Madness, and Vincent van Gogh in Manuel Rivas' Os comedores de patacas.- Chapter 21: Sargadelos and the Aesthetic Formation of Galician Identity.
About the author
Benita Sampedro Vizcaya is Associate Professor of Colonial Studies at Hofstra University, USA. Her latest publications include Ceiba II. (Poesía inédita), an annotated edition of the unpublished poetry by Raquel Ilombe del Pozo Epita (2015); a monographic issue of Revista Debats entitled Guinea Ecuatorial. Políticas / Poéticas / Discursividades (2014); a monographic issue of Afro-Hispanic Review entitled “Theorizing Equatorial Guinea” (2009), and Border Interrogations: Questioning Spanish Frontiers (2008).
José A. Losada Montero is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Southwest Minnesota State University, USA. He is a book review writer for the Galician academic journal Grial. He previously served as the Galician Chair Xoan González Millán Secretary at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA.
Summary
This book—aimed at both the general reader and the specialist—offers a transatlantic, transnational, and multidisciplinary cartography of the rapidly expanding intellectual field of Galician Studies. In the twenty-one essays that comprise the volume, leading scholars based in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand engage with this field from the perspectives of queer theory, Atlantic and diasporic thought, political ecology, hydropoetics, theories of space, trauma and memory studies, exile, national/postnational approaches, linguistic ideologies, ethnographic poetry and photography, Galician language in the US academic curriculum, the politics of children’s books, film and visual studies, the interrelation of painting and literature, and material culture. Structured around five organizational categories (Frames, Routes, Readings, Teachings, and Visualities), and adopting a pluricentric view of Galicia as an analytical subject of study, the book brings cutting-edge debates in Galician Studies to a broad international readership.
