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Contents Introduction: Generation X and Rock: The Sounds of a New Tradition Christine Henseler and Randolph D. Pope ix PART I Rocking the Academy: Generation X Narratives 1 A Distopyan Culture. The Minimalist Paradigm in the Generation X Gonzalo Navajas 3 2 The Pistols Strike Again! On the Function of Punk in Peninsular "Generation X" Fiction by Ray Loriga and Benjam¿n Prado Paul D. Begin 15 3 What We Talk About When We Talk About Dirty Realism in Spain Cintia Santana 33 PART II Can Anyone Rock Like We Do?: Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll, Then and Now 4 Can Anyone Rock Like We Do? Or, How the Gen X Aesthetic Transcends the Age of the Writer Samuel Amago 59 5 Apocalypses Now: The End of Spanish Literature? Reading Payasos en la lavadora as Critical Parody Luis Mart¿n-Cabrera 78 6 Not Your Father's Rock and Roll: Listening to Transitional/Eighties Writers and Generation X Elizabeth Scarlett 97 PART III Historias del Kronen on the Rocks 7 Between Rock and the Rocking Chair: The Epilogue's Resistance in Historias del Kronen Randolph Pope 115 8 Realism on the Rocks in the Generational Novel: "Rummies," Rhythm, and Rebellion in Historias del Kronen & The Sun Also Rises Matthew J. Marr 126 PART IV Rocking the Road with Ray Loriga 9 Reckless Driving: Speed, Mobility, and Transgression in the Spanish "Rock 'n' Road" Novel Jorge P¿rez 153 10 Television and the Power of Image in Ca¿dos del cielo and La pistola de mi hermano by Ray Loriga Kathryn Everly 170 11 Rocking Around Ray Loriga's H¿roes: Video-clip Literature and the Televisual Subject Christine Henseler 184 PART V The Soundtrack of Gender: Violating Visions and the Psychological Power of Rock 12 Watching, Wanting, and the Gen X Soundtrack of Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo Nina Molinaro 203 13 Saved by Art: Entrapment and Freedom in Ic¿ar Bolla¿n's Te doy mis ojos Linda Gould Levine 216 Afterword: Luis Mart¿n-Estudillo 235 Contributors 247 Index 251 u Introduction Generation X and Rock: The Sounds of a New Tradition Christine Henseler and Randolph Pope
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Spanish fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures -- Spain.
Rock music -- Spain.
Popular culture -- Spain.