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Acknowledgements

I wish to thank Bangor University for granting me two study leave periods in 2009 and 2012, during which I could conduct essential research for this book. I would not have been able to finalize it on time had it not been for the generous AHRC Fellowship I was awarded in 2012. A very special word of thanks goes to all my colleagues at the School of Modern Languages at Bangor University. I could not think of a better, kinder team of people with whom to work.

My heartfelt gratitude goes to Kirsty Hooper, without whose enthusiastic encouragement and intellectual support many of the ideas in this book would have taken a lot longer to form. Also, I am grateful to John Rutherford, whose expert criticism helped me revise the book before it went to the publisher. I am intellectually indebted to the work of other scholars in Hispanic and Galician Studies, including Andrew Ginger, Manuela Palacios, María Liñeira and María do Cebreiro Rábade Villar. A million thanks also go to Linda C. Jones and Jennifer Green at Bangor University, to Ana Andrade at the Biblioteca Xeral of the University of Santiago de Compostela and to Sarah Lewis at the University of Wales Press, for their immense help at several stages in the revision process.

I hope that the various colleagues above do not mind me confessing that, despite their generous guidance, writing this book has been a fairly solitary affair for me. Becoming the person who could write it, however, has been possible only thanks to the many inspiring people I have been lucky enough to meet thus far.

For changing the geographies of my life forever I thank Ottavio Croze. I would not be where I am today – quite literally – had it not been for his vision.

For their fierce intelligence, their critical spirit and the conversations they still choose to have with me, I thank Suso Vázquez Gómez, Sofía García Pitart, Yolanda Pérez González, María Filippakopoulou, Athanasía Theodoropoulou, Anna Hatzidaki, Rosalía Rodríguez Vázquez and María Reimóndez.

For staying, through change, I thank Chris J. Monahan.

For being there from the beginning, I thank Jorge.

Por riba de todo, este libro está dedicado á miña familia, a toda ela, pola súa xenerosidade radical.