Gender, Displacement, and Cultural Networks of Galicia: 1800s to Present

by Obdulia Castro (Editor), Diego Baena (Editor), Marïa A. Rey Lïpez (Editor), Miriam Sïnchez Moreiras (Editor)

Overview

This book, bringing together a multi-voiced dialogue between academic scholars and professionals from diverse fields, shares a comprehensive and heterogeneous look at the interdisciplinarity of Galician Studies while examining a chronologically broad range of subjects from the 1800s to the present.

This volume carves out a distinct approach to gender studies investigating issues of culture, language, displacement, counterculture artists, and community projects as related to questions of politics, gender and class. Women, conceived as both individual and political bodies, are studied, among other things, as an example of what it means to struggle from the margins emphasizing the importance of looking at the opposition between the center and the peripheries when studying the relationship between space and culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030988630
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	07/03/2022
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Obdulia Castro is Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Regis University, Denver, USA.

Diego Baena is Visiting Assistant Professor at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, USA

María Rey López is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA.

Miriam Sánchez Moreiras is Instructor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Regis University, Denver, USA.

Table of Contents

Part I: “Displacing” Galician Studies: Diasporic and Linguistic Perspectives.- 1 A Place to live and a Place to Die: Displacement and Settlement in Contemporary Galician Culture.- 2 Language as Object of Research vs. Language as Political Object: Old and New Horizons in the Study of Galician.- Part II: Bodies, Sexes and Genders I: Intimate and Political Bodies.- Lobos 3 Sucios: Nazis, Meigas and Mouros in the Galician Wolfram Mines During WWII.- 4 Alma e o mar: About Love, Myths and Landscapes in Galicia.- 5 Semellantes as feridas? Feminist De-Colonial Readings of Galician Fiction.- Part III: Bodies, Sexes and Genders II: Seductions, Motherhoods and Rebellions.- 6 “Seducible” Souls, “Bastard” Republics: Fear of a Literate Demos in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s La Tribuna (1883).- 7 Motherhood and Social Progress in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Los Pazos de Ulloa (1886).- 8 María Vinyals: A Multidisciplinary Writer.- Part IV: Folk Arts and the Professional Art Circuit: Artistic Production and Cultural Dissemination.- 9 Notes on the Cultural Policy of the Commons in a Cooperative Framework: Numax’s Presence in Santiago de Compostela.- 10 The Forest for the Tree: Artist Willy Taboada and the Galician Transition to Neoliberalism.- 11 Emilio Araúxo and the Foundations of a Galician Poetic Ethnography.- 12 The True Story of Three Musical Prodigies from Ferrol: José Arriola, and Pilar and Carmen Osorio Rodríguez.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“In the twelve chapters included in this book one comes face to face with the vigor of contemporary Galician studies, ranging from literature and cinema to language and the visual arts: all from a perspective sensitive to questions of gender, identities and various diasporic experiences. A multidisciplinary, innovative dialogue that is rooted in alternate cultural and academic contexts at both sides of the Atlantic.” (Rosario Álvarez Blanco, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

“A highly compelling volume offering innovative and ground-breaking perspectives on both historical and contemporary debates within Galician Cultural Studies. In this provocative interdisciplinary work, the editors compiled thought-provoking chapters covering a diverse range of cultural practices such as literary traditions, films, art, ethnography, music, language practices and the politics of identity. Gender, Displacement and Cultural Networks in Galicia (1800’s to the Present) promises to become one of the most stimulating books in the vibrant and growing field of Galician Studies.” (Olga Castro, University of Warwick, UK)