Generation X Rocks (eBook)

TABLE OF CONTENTSChristine Henseler and Randolph Pope IntroductionI. ROCKING THE ACADEMY: GENERATION X NARRATIVESGonzalo Navajas A Dystopian Culture. The Minimalist Paradigm in the Generation XPaul D. Begin The Pistols Strike Again! On the Function of Punk in Peninsular "Generation X" Fiction by Ray Loriga a Benjamín PradoCintia Santana What We Talk About When We Talk About Dirty Realism in Spain II. CAN ANYONE ROCK LIKE WE DO?: SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK & ROLL THEN AND NOWSamuel Amago Can Anyone Rock Like We Do? Or, How the Gen X Aesthetic Transcends the Age of the WriterLuis Martín-Cabrera Apocalypses Now: The End of Spanish Literature? Reading Payasos en la Lavadora as Critical ParodyElizabeth Scarlett Not Your Father's Rock and Roll: Listening to Transitional/Eighties Writers and Generation X III. HISTORIAS DEL KRONEN ON THE ROCKSRandolph Pope Between Rock and the Rocking Chair: The Epilogue's Resistance in Historias del KronenMatthew J. Marr Realism on the Rocks in the Generational Novel:: "Rummies," Rhythm, and Rebellion in Historias del Kronen & The Sun Also Rises IV. ROCKING THE ROAD WITH RAY LORIGAJorge Pérez Reckless Driving: Speed, Mobility, and Transgression in the Spanish "Rock 'n' Road" NovelKathryn Everly Television and the Power of Image in Caídos del cielo and La pistola de mi hermano by Ray Loriga.Christine Henseler Rocking Around Ray Loriga's Héroes: Video Clip Literature and the Televisual SubjectV. THE SOUNDTRACK OF GENDER: VIOLATING VISIONS AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL POWER OF ROCKNina Molinaro Watching, Wanting, and the Gen X Soundtrack of Gabriela Bustelo's Veo VeoLinda Gould Levine Saved by Art?: Entrapment and Freedom in Icíar Bollaín's Te doy mis ojosLuis Martin-Estudillo Afterword