José Colmeiro – författare

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, discipline, genre, gender, origins, or territorial demarcation, while aiming to disjoint the center/periphery dichotomy that has relegated Galician culture to the margins. In essence, it is an attempt to resituate Galicia and Galician studies out of the periphery and open them to the world.

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, discipline, genre, gender, origins, or territorial demarcation, while aiming to disjoint the center/periphery dichotomy that has relegated Galician culture to the margins. In essence, it is an attempt to resituate Galicia and Galician studies out of the periphery and open them to the world.

El ruido y la furia recoge una serie de conversaciones con Manuel Vázquez Montalbán mantenidas a lo largo de varios años por José Colmeiro, reconocido experto en la obra del autor y periodista catalán. La temática gira en torno a la obra literaria y ensayística del autor, la discusión del contexto histórico y cultural contemporáneo, la recuperación de la memoria y la búsqueda de respuestas por parte del intelectual a los retos del presente. El libro ofrece un amplio panorama del pensamiento crítico del autor que permite dilucidar importantes claves de enorme interés sobre su vasta producción intelectual. Las conversaciones revelan una radiografía inusual de la evolución de sus preocupaciones y reflexiones sobre la realidad española contemporánea, así como el contexto internacional de la globalización neoliberal, desde una posición de resistencia crítica que ilumina las sombras de la cueva en el planeta de simios globalizados.

Análisis multidisciplinar de los procesos de redefinición acaecidos en el marco de la globalización en España. En estos últimos años, el país ha atravesado un proceso de cambio que ha desembocado en una profunda crisis, económica, política, cultural e identitaria, que afecta a la propia idea de España y apunta hacia una nueva transición política y cultural.