Gender, Displacement, and Cultural Networks of Galicia

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.

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.

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 BazánsLa Tribuna(1883).- 7 Motherhood and Social Progress in Emilia Pardo BazánsLos 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:Numaxs Presence in Santiago de Compostela.- 10 The Forest for the Tree: ArtistWilly 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.