This course aims to provide students with an understanding of the main lines underlying recent works related to the study of contemporary Spanish literature, which are essential for shaping the current literary landscape and recognizing the most relevant Spanish literary production of the recent period. This knowledge is of significant importance for teaching across different fields and levels, as it allows students to relate texts to the main aesthetic and thematic currents, as well as outline a possible canon, useful for shaping the textual corpus required for other subjects in the program.
The specific skills students will acquire are:
- Understanding the landscape of contemporary Spanish literary culture, as well as the various channels of dissemination, and analyzing it from an interdisciplinary perspective.
- Analyzing literary texts from the various theoretical perspectives most relevant in the 21st century.
- Relating contemporary Spanish literature to other cultural texts from a comparative perspective.
- Addressing the main sociocultural issues reflected in contemporary literary texts.
TOPICS:
-Theoretical and methodological issues
-Postwar narrative
-Literature between dictatorship and democracy. The Spanish transition
-Literature of the late 20th century. The incorporation of women writers and the new narrative
-Literature of the 21st century: fiction, poetry, and theater. Identity and images of Otherness
-Literature of the 21st century: memory and autofiction
-Prominent authors of the 21st century
-Genres and bestsellers: crime novels and historical novels
-Science fiction: challenges of the future