Spanish Fiction in the Digital Age Generation X Remixed [Hardcover]

This book?applies theoretical models that reflect the mediated, hybrid, and nomadic global scenes within which GenX artists and writers live, think, and work. Henseler touches upon critical insights in comparative media studies, cultural studies, and social theory, and uses sidebars to travel along multiple voices, facts, figures, and faces.Tales of Generation X Punked Out on a New Style: Tuning into Spanish Narrative of the 1990s MTV Aesthetics and The Emergence of Synesthetic Story Spaces Aesthetic Nomadism: Re-Figuring the Female Through Reality Television Toward a Genealogy of the GenX Nomad in Video Game Fiction 2.0: New Media Storytelling in the Twenty-First Century In The Desert of a Network of Nomadic Narratives

This thoroughly engaging and highly original study not only sheds new light on contemporary Spanish literature and Spanish cultural studies, it proposes new and exciting ways of studying literature in the twenty-first century. Henseler adapts some of the devices used in the texts themselves to her own writing, providing a thought-provoking, multidisciplinary, and revitalizing approach. In an open (sometimes literal) dialogue with a wide-range of disciplines, the book demonstrates the remarkable impact that Spanish and global popular culture (from pop art to music videos), film, modern technology, and new media have had in the Spanish literary production of the democratic period. The book and its author are set to become essential references in every study of contemporary Spanish literature. - Santiago Fouz-Hern?ndez, senior lecturer in Spanish, Durham University

This is a book that not only uses interdisciplinary and intelligent tools of literary analysis appropriate of the twenty-first century, but also proposes new paths and leads to brilliant findings. A book that, most certainly, will become an international reference on the study of new Spanish narrative. - Agust?n Fern?ndez Mallo, novelist and poet