Author Bio

Christine Henseler is Associate Professor of Spanish at Union College.

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Randolph D. Pope is Commonwealth Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia.

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Main Description

Essays in this volume explore the popular cultural effects of rock culture on high literary production in Spain in the 1990s.

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Reviews

Generation X Rocks serves as a helpful primer on popular culture in Spain and the current group of writers whose work draws the culture to the fore.
--David K. Herzberger, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies

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Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Christine Henseler and Randolph Pope Introduction

I. ROCKING THE ACADEMY: GENERATION X NARRATIVES

Gonzalo Navajas A Dystopian Culture. The Minimalist Paradigm in the Generation X

Paul D. Begin The Pistols Strike Again! On the Function of Punk in
Peninsular "Generation X" Fiction by Ray Loriga a Benjamn Prado

Cintia Santana What We Talk About When We Talk About Dirty Realism in Spain

II. CAN ANYONE ROCK LIKE WE DO?: SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK & ROLL THEN AND NOW

Samuel Amago Can Anyone Rock Like We Do? Or, How the Gen X Aesthetic Transcends the Age of the Writer

Luis Martn-Cabrera Apocalypses Now: The End of Spanish Literature? Reading Payasos en la Lavadora as Critical Parody

Elizabeth Scarlett Not Your Father's Rock and Roll: Listening to Transitional/Eighties Writers and Generation X


III. HISTORIAS DEL KRONEN ON THE ROCKS

Randolph Pope Between Rock and the Rocking Chair: The Epilogue's Resistance in Historias del Kronen

Matthew J. Marr Realism on the Rocks in the Generational Novel:: "Rummies," Rhythm, and Rebellion in Historias del Kronen & The Sun Also Rises



IV. ROCKING THE ROAD WITH RAY LORIGA
Jorge Prez Reckless Driving: Speed, Mobility, and Transgression in the Spanish "Rock 'n' Road" Novel

Kathryn Everly Television and the Power of Image in Cados del cielo and La pistola de mi hermano by Ray Loriga.

Christine Henseler Rocking Around Ray Loriga's Hroes: Video Clip Literature and the Televisual Subject


V. THE SOUNDTRACK OF GENDER: VIOLATING VISIONS AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL POWER OF ROCK

Nina Molinaro Watching, Wanting, and the Gen X Soundtrack of
Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo

Linda Gould Levine Saved by Art?: Entrapment and Freedom in Icar Bollan's Te doy mis ojos

Luis Martin-Estudillo Afterword

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