TOPIC 1. Autofiction as a hybrid genre. Invention in autobiographical writing
Exploration of the boundaries between life and fiction, between the autobiographical and the literary, through the ¿I¿ as a narrative construction.
Analysis of the works of Annie Ernaux, Ottessa Moshfegh, Vivian Gornick, Marta Sanz, Emmanuel Carrère, etc.
THEME 2. Writing the body. Gender, identity and sexuality
Texts that address the body as a political, affective and narrative space, in dialogue with feminist, queer and trans theories.
Analysis of the works of Paul B. Preciado, Virginie Despentes, Luna MigueL, Cristina Rivera Garza, etc.
THEME 3. Literature for a disturbing future. Dystopian stories in the wake of science fiction.
Speculative narratives that imagine possible futures as a critical mirror of the present: crisis, technology, mutation, power.
Analysis of the works of Monica Ojeda, Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Lina Meruane, Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy, etc.
THEME 4. Ecological crisis and ecocritical literature. Critique of capitalism, exhumation of the damage and the possibility of reparation.
Stories that think about environmental devastation, the relationship with the non-human and the possibility of an ecological narrative of mourning and care.
Analysis of works by Samantha Schweblin, Irene Solà, Pilar Adón, Jesús Carrasco, Cristian Romero, etc.
