Book chapter
Afterword: The Moment X in Spanish Narrative (and Beyond)
Generation X Rocks, pp.235-245
Vanderbilt University Press
06/18/2007
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv167567h.17
Abstract
The convergence of preoccupations and narrative strategies which brought young authors such as Lucía Etxebarria, Ray Loriga, José Ángel Mañas, Benjamín Prado, and Roger Wolfe to the forefront of the Spanish literary panorama during the early- and mid-1990s was almost immediately used to promulgate the existence of a differentiated promotion of novelists. The creation of groups such as “Generation X”—echoing an earlier American phenomenon—usually responds to the commercial interests of publishers or to the pedagogical/taxonomical/critical efforts by academics. Both are legitimate, but none should cloud our understanding of a more complex reality. Thus, instead of a “Generation X,”
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Afterword: The Moment X in Spanish Narrative (and Beyond)
- Creators
- Luis Martín-Estudillo
- Contributors
- Christine Henseler (Editor)Randolph D. Pope (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Generation X Rocks, pp.235-245
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- DOI
- 10.2307/j.ctv167567h.17
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/18/2007
- Academic Unit
- Spanish and Portuguese; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984397916002771
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