Peripheral Visions, Global Positions: Remapping Galician Culture

Abstract

This essay synthesizes some of the most dramatic changes taking place in the Galician cultural landscape and argues for a shift towards a postnational and interdisciplinary cultural studies approach based on a 'deterritorialization of the Galician cultural map', where the hitherto privileged institutional channels of cultural identity – language, literature, territory – are set alongside new cultural formulations whose provenance and import are not only Galician but global. Examining literary, cultural, musical and visual works emanating from Galicians around the world and from citizens of the world based in Galicia, the essay proposes an interpretation of Galician cultural production in which the peripheral is reimagined as central and the Galician as incontrovertibly global.