Returning to rurality

Abstract

In recent years, LGBTQ literature, culture, and communities have begun returning to the rural as a space from which to articulate a queer Galician identity. Drawing on rural queer studies, literature, and cultural phenomena, this article seeks to understand both how the rural became associated with heteropatriarchy and how contemporary non-metronormative LGBTQ narratives reimagine rural space as a site of resistance, redirecting the cultural shift away from the urban that has characterized contemporary Galician society and culture during the last century. Under consideration is a wide range of literature, art, cultural events, and ephemera from the Rexurdimento to the present day.