The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film - Diana Q. Palardy

The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film

Buch | Hardcover
XV, 235 Seiten
2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-92884-5 (ISBN)
85,59 inkl. MwSt
This study examines contemporary Spanish dystopian literature and films (in)directly related to the 2008 financial crisis from an urban cultural studies perspective. It explores culturally-charged landscapes that effectively convey the zeitgeist and reveal deep-rooted anxieties about issues such as globalization, consumerism, immigration, speculation, precarity, and political resistance (particularly by Indignados [Indignant Ones] from the 15-M Movement). The book loosely traces the trajectory of the crisis, with the first part looking at texts that underscore some of the behaviors that indirectly contributed to the crisis, and the remaining chapters focusing on works that directly examine the crisis and its aftermath. This close reading of texts and films by Ray Loriga, Elia Barceló, Ion de Sosa, José Ardillo, David Llorente, Eduardo Vaquerizo, and Ricardo Menéndez Salmón offers insights into the creative ways that these authors and directors use spatial constructions to capture the dystopian imagination.

Diana Q Palardy is Associate Professor of Spanish at Youngstown State University, USA. She has published articles in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Romance Notes, España Contemporánea, and Revista Chilena de Literatura. She is on the steering committee of the Society for Utopian Studies.

1. Introduction.- 2. The Path to Voluntary Confinement: Dystopian Spaces of Consumerism in Ray Loriga's Tokio ya no nos quiere.- 3. Grafting the Global North onto the Global South: Dystopian Transhumanism in Elia Barceló's "Mil euros por tu vida".- 4. The Architecture of Avarice in Ion de Sosa's Sueñan los androides or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about the Economic Crisis and Love the Sheep.- 5. Sensescapes of Precarity in El salario del gigante by José Ardillo, Madrid: frontera by David Llorente, and Nos mienten by Eduardo Vaquerizo.- 6. The Cartography of In/subordination in El sistema by Ricardo Menéndez Salmón.- 7. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Hispanic Urban Studies
Zusatzinfo XV, 235 p. 5 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 439 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte 15-M movement • 2008 Spanish Financial Crisis • Dystopia and Urban Landscapes • dystopian transhumanism • Indignados • Spanish Dystopian Film • Spanish Dystopian Literature • Spanish immigration dystopia • Spanish Science Fiction • Topos • Urban Cultural Studies
ISBN-10 3-319-92884-8 / 3319928848
ISBN-13 978-3-319-92884-5 / 9783319928845
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