Open AccessSpanish 21th Century Narrative: an Expanding Galaxy
Author(s) -
Maura Rossi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
rassegna iberistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2037-6588
pISSN - 0392-4777
DOI - 10.30687/ri/2037-6588/2019/112/002
Subject(s) - immediacy , phenomenon , narrative , argumentation theory , schema (genetic algorithms) , politics , history , sociology , aesthetics , epistemology , literature , linguistics , philosophy , art , political science , law , computer science , machine learning
This essay is a synchronic exploration of peninsular literature in Spanish, and its main aim is to draw a map – within the inescapable boundaries imposed by strict immediacy – of tendencies, developments, filiations, thematic patterns and socio-political contaminations that may characterise it. Starting from a negotiated definition of ‘the aughts’ as a referential frame for this reflection, the argumentation translates into an analysis of ultra-contemporary Spanish novel as a mutant and polymorphous phenomenon, on the edge (or past it, according to those who claim it has already died) of the expiration of novela social , the acrobatic statements of afterpop , the intra- and extra-literary claims of postmemory, the permeability towards the worldwide diffusion of brevity and auto-fiction, the conflict between local hyper-specificity and panhispanic pangea.