Seminar: Spanish Literature II

Teacher(s)

Fabry Geneviève;

Language

Spanish

Main themes

The seminar further examines specific problems in a selection of works of contemporary Spanish literature thanks to the systematic application.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	The student will receive in this seminar the grounding necessary to carry out a research task in the field of contemporary Spanish literature and to take part in a scholarly debate in this field.

Content

Literature is an instrument for analysing social and economic reality. This premise guides the content of the 2022-2023 seminar, which will be dedicated to the analysis of the Spanish novel published since 2008, the date of a serious economic crisis that has profoundly affected Spanish society. Novels characterised by a realistic or dystopian aesthetic that highlights the unresolved conflicts of contemporary Spain will be analysed. Texts written by Belén Gopegui, Rafael Chirbes or Marta Sanz, among others, will offer the corpus. The approach will be twofold. On the one hand, we will look at the way in which the novel relays social conflicts and gives a voice to the voiceless. On the other hand, we will examine how this new "sharing of the sensible" (Rancière)  is dealt with at the level of narrative enunciation and the chronotopic organisation of the novels.

Teaching methods

Preliminary readings will be discussed in seminar. Afterwards, students will produce individual works to share with the group.

Evaluation methods

The assessment will be based mainly on the final written work but will also take into account the participation and the oral presentation.

Other information

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Bibliography

Ayete Gil, Maria. Lecturas desde la grieta: la novela política pos15M. Bellaterra, 2022.
Becerra Mayor, David. Después del acontecimiento. El retorno de lo político en la literatura española tras el 15-M. Bellaterra, 2021.
Bezhanova, Olga, Literature of Crisis : Spain's Engagement with Liquid Capital, Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press., 2017
Bonvalot, A.L. Fictions politiques : esthétiques de l'engagement littéraire dans l'Espagne contemporain Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2019
Bonvalot A.L. et alii, Escribir la democracia : literatura y transiciones democráticas. . Madrid : Casa de Velázquez, 2019
Claesson, Christian (coord.), Narrativas precarias. Crisis y subjetividad en la cultura española actual. Hoja de Lata, 2019
Labrador Méndez, Germán. “'Lo llamaban democracia? La crítica estética de la política en la transición española y el imaginario de la historia en el 15-M”. Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural 4 (2014): 11-61.
Pueyo, Javier. Vidas low cost. Ser joven entre dos crisis. Madrid : Catarata, 2021

Faculty or entity

ELAL