Beyond sentidiño

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.

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