Compartir
Título
Critical Dystopias in Spanish: memory as an Act of Resilience
Autor(es)
Materia
Inglés (Lengua)
Psicología
Distopías críticas
Critical dystopias
Resilience
Resiliencia
Clasificación UNESCO
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
Fecha de publicación
2019
Editor
Routledge (Londres, Gran Bretaña)
Citación
Fraile Marcos, A.M., Noguerol, F. (2015). Critical Dystopias in Spanish: memory as an Act of Resilience. En Fraile Marcos, A.M. (ed.), Glocal Narratives of Resilience, pp. 148-162. Londres: Routledge
Resumen
[EN] The lines in the epigraph, “But where there is danger, / A rescuing element grows as well” (Hölderlin 71), highlight a quality of resilience that can be observed in the capacity of human beings for endurance and recovery when they find themselves under extreme pressure. The present chapter approaches the study of human resilience through the lens of memory and its centrality in the recovery of individual and collective self-esteem by focusing on a selection of recent “critical dystopias” (Moylan) written in Spanish. We suggest that the selected works can be understood as ascribing to the “ethics of defeat” (Amar Sánchez) and “reflective nostalgia” (Boym), at the same time as they investigate the potentiality of “cultural agencies” (Sommer) for the development of resilience. Furthermore, we argue that the chosen dystopian narratives reject the consensus ethics characteristic of contemporary writing (Rancière) and defend, instead, an ethics of conviction (Badiou).
URI
ISBN
9780367261337
Colecciones