Generation X Rocks
Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture
1st Edition
Published on 18. June 2007
288 pages
978-0-8265-9229-3 (ISBN)
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Essays in this volume explore the popular cultural effects of rock culture on high literary production in Spain in the 1990s.
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Christine Henseler | Randolph D. Pope
Generation X Rocks
Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film and Rock Culture
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06/2007
Vanderbilt University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Generation X and Rock: The Sounds of a New Tradition
- I. Rocking the Academy: Generation X Narratives
- 1. A Distopian Culture: The Minimalist Paradigm in the Generation X
- 2. The Pistols Strike Again! On the Function of Punk in the Peninsular "Generation X" Fiction of Ray Loriga and Benjamin Prado
- 3. 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 Now
- 4. Can Anyone Rock Like We Do? Or, How the Gen X Aesthetic Transcends the Age of the Writer
- 5. Apocalypses Now: The End of Spanish Literature? Reading Payasos en la Lavadora as Critical Parody
- 6. Not Your Father's Rock and Roll: Listening to Transitional/Eighties Writers and Generation X
- III. Historias del Kronen on the Rocks
- 7. Between Rock and the Rocking Chair: The Epilogue's Resistance in Historias del Kronen
- 8. Realism on the Rocks in the Generational Novel: "Rummies," Rhythm, and Rebellion in Historias del Kronen and The Sun Also Rises
- IV. Rocking the Road with Ray Loriga
- 9. Reckless Driving: Speed, Mobility, and Transgression in the Spanish "Rock 'n' Road" Novel
- 10. Television and the Power of Image in Caidos del cielo and La pistola de mi hermano by Ray Loriga
- 11. Rocking around Ray Loriga's Heroes: Video-Clip Literature and the Televisual Subject
- V. The Soundtrack of Gender: Violating Visions and the Psychological Power of Rock
- 12. Watching, Wanting, and the Gen X Soundtrack of Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo
- 13. Saved by Art: Entrapment and Freedom in Iciar Bollain's Te doy mis ojos
- Afterword: The Moment X in Spanish Narrative (and Beyond)
- Contributors
- Index
