Literature of crisis : Spain's engagement with liquid capital / Olga Bezhanova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bezhanova, Olga, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xlii, 175 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press , 2017.

Summary:

Literature of Crisis: Spain's Engagement with Liquid Capital explores novels, essays and poetry published by Spanish writers in response to the global economic crisis that began in 2008. Spain experienced the crisis in a particularly painful way, and the artistic response to these traumatic events has been powerful and abundant. Crisis literature is pointing to the probability that the crisis is not a temporary problem that can be resolved once and for all even if correct economic measures are taken. To the contrary, there is every reason to believe that such attributes of the crisis as losses in long-term employment, growing precariousness of work, increased economic insecurity, citizens' disillusionment with the capacity of democratic governments to withstand the pressures of global capital, erosion of the welfare state, and explosive growth in inequality are not likely to be reversed. Spanish artists are exploring the reasons behind the severity of the crisis in Spain and, at the same time, are placing the suffering that the crisis has brought to Spaniards within the context of the global developments that are ensuring its durability. Essays by Antonio Muñoz Molina and Lucía Etxebarria; novels by Rafael Chirbes, Luis García Montero, Benjamín Prado, and Belén Gopegui, and poetry by the artists who contributed to the collections titled En legítima defensa. Poetas en tiempos de crisis and Marca(da) España. Retrato poético de una sociedad en crisis point to the necessity of expanding our definition of the crisis in a way that will reflect the impact of liquid capital on all areas of humans existence. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Essay: A Defense of Fluidity 1

2 Novel: Revisiting History 39

3 Poetry: In Search of Solidarity 107.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-169) and index.

ISBN:

9781611488364

1611488362

OCLC:

987797053