2. The panel brings together four scholars whose work centers on the insurgent possibilities of rerouting under conditions of censorship, dislocation, and ideological crisis. Their interventions span a bodily approach to migration, the politics of visuality, mediatic representation, and geopoetics, together offering a multifaceted account of how aesthetic rerouting reconfigures the relationship between art, power, and life.

3. The session advances a clear intervention in current scholarship. Work on Francoism, migration, coloniality, Democratic Spain, media cultures, and poethics has established the centrality of censorship, displacement, spectacle, and state violence to twentieth-century Spain. This panel draws those conversations into the common framework of rerouting, allowing us to not only read these archives together as scenes of pressure and invention but also to examine how cultural production reorganizes the very terms through which authority circulates. It also sharpens the understanding of how subjects inhabit imposed structures while generating alternative forms of presence, perception, and relation.

4. The session will feature four presentations of no more than twelve minutes each. This structure ensures at least fifteen minutes of unstructured discussion.

5. The four papers form a coherent argument. Each paper studies a distinct archive, and each one traces a specific mode of rerouting. Together they offer a strong account of how power travels through bodies, images, screens, and lyric spaces, and how those same sites generate forms of disturbance and reconfiguration.

Alessio Piras’s paper, “Migrant Bodies as a Deviation from the Norm in Francoist Barcelona,” examines racialized migrant corporeality in the cultural imagination of Barcelona during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Through readings of Jaime Gil de Biedma, Juan Marsé, and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, the paper shows that migrant bodies altered the coordinates of belonging in a space organized by Francoist discipline and Catalan national self-fashioning. The body becomes a site of pressure that forces a redefinition of Spanishness and Catalanity. Rerouting here operates through corporeal presence, urban contact, and the destabilization of homogeneous national forms.

Sandra Baena-Velázquez’s paper, “Deviant Spectacles: Mediatic Detours in 1990s Spanish Television,” studies the representation of trans lives in a decade marked by private television, intensified migration, and the consolidation of Spain’s European image. Television emerges as a machine for circulation, spectacle, and regulation. Programs such as Esta Noche Cruzamos el Mississippi and Crónicas Marcianas filtered trans visibility through sensationalist formats that shaped public perception and commercialized difference. At the same time, trans self-representation generated forms of intervention and knowledge that exceeded those mediatic scripts. This paper presents rerouting as a struggle over visibility, temporality, and the public life of gendered embodiment.

Alicia Piñar Díaz’s paper, “Rerouting the Colonial Gaze: Visual Opacity in Leoncio Evita’s Cuando los combes luchaban (1953),” turns to Spanish Guinea and the visual field of colonial rule. Focusing on the novel’s cover and illustrations, the paper argues that Evita deploys opacity as a strategy of visual redirection. Obscured faces, partial profiles, and withheld ethnographic legibility reshape the terms of colonial spectatorship. Drawing on Mary Louise Pratt, Édouard Glissant, and Gaurav Desai, the paper shows how these images generate visibility without surrendering subjectivity to colonial capture. Rerouting takes the form of a visual politics that interrupts classification from within the archive itself.

Francisco Cantero Soriano’s paper, “Geopolitics of Rerouting: Francisco García Lorca and Lyric Space in Exile,” reads Poesía through the spatial and affective conditions of Republican exile in New York. The paper argues that García Lorca constructs a sensory poetics of space through touch, sound, perfume, water, garden, and city. Granada and New York appear as a shared constellation organized by mourning, displacement, and poetic invention. Exile becomes a practice of spatial reconfiguration that transforms lyric form into historical knowledge and political imagination.

6. This panel brings together speakers from different institutions, academic stages, national backgrounds, gender positionalities, and sexual orientations, fostering a more equitable and intellectually expansive conversation on rethinking twentieth-century Spain.