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Peripheral Visions by José F. Colmeiro is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Peripheral Visions about?

Galician audio/visual culture has experienced an unprecedented period of growth following the process of political and cultural devolution in post-Franco Spain. This creative explosion has occurred in a productive dialogue with global currents and with considerable projection beyond the geopolitical boundaries of the nation and the state, but these seismic changes are only beginning to be the subject of attention of cultural and media studies. This book examines contemporary audio/visual production in Galicia as privileged channels through which modern Galician cultural identities have been imagined, constructed and consumed, both at home and abroad. The cultural redefinition of Galicia in the global age is explored through different media texts (popular music, cinema, video) which cross established boundaries and deterritorialise new border zones where tradition and modernity dissolve, generating creative tensions between the urban and the rural, the local and the global, the real and the imagined. The book aims for the deperipheralization and deterritorialization of the Galician cultural map by overcoming long-established hegemonic exclusions, whether based on language, disciplin

Who reads Peripheral Visions?

Author

José F. Colmeiro

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781800855755

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, History, Music