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Author:   Daniel Amarelo ,  Laura Lesta García
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032362199

ISBN 10:   1032362197
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of 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

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""Framed as a collective reflection on the challenges and opportunities of rethinking Galician culture for a post-2008, post-Covid, rapidly digitalizing world, this ambitious essay collection will transform our understanding of contemporary Galicianness. The authors, all writing from beyond Galicia itself, critically embrace the identity of ‘displaced subjects’ to challenge the contemporary supremacy of sentidiño, a distinctively Galician form of ‘common sense’, identified as a key tool in the ongoing containment of Galicianness to make it compatible with the demands of the neoliberal Spanish state. Drawing on an innovative, multidisciplinary corpus and diverse theoretical frameworks, the essays drive us beyond the familiar, exploring fresh dimensions of contemporary Galician culture that leave us in no doubt of its creative, outward-looking, transformative potential. I’m immensely excited about this collection, which promises to revolutionise Galicia’s place in both teaching and research."" Kirsty Hooper, Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Warwick, UK ""Beyond sentidiño interrogates collectively some of the most significant cultural issues in Galiza today. Bringing to the fore ecocentric, queer and other counterhegemonic perspectives, the essays in this volume testify to the vibrancy of Galician Studies as a transdiscipline, a unique vantage point from which to illuminate the many facets of resistant cultural practice in (relation to) Galiza, which remains – to this day – a contested space of the Iberian, Hispanic and Lusophone spheres."" Helena Miguélez-Carballeira, Professor in Hispanic Studies, Prifysgol Bangor/Bangor University, UK

Author Information

Daniel Amarelo is a PhD student in Humanities and Communication (Critical Sociolinguistics) at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and a member of the Galician Network of Queer Studies (RGEQ). Their thesis studies Galician and Catalan queer speakers’ linguistic ideologies regarding the intersection of language, nation, and sexuality. Laura Lesta García is an Assistant Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies at Middlebury College (Vermont, USA). Her research addresses the intersection between humor and history and its role in the processes of national and identity formation in the Iberian Peninsula, especially in Galicia. Professor Lesta García has published in a number of journals, including Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and Romance Notes.

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