Published: 2022-08-10

Narrating the city: Neoliberalism, consumerism, digital age and economic crisis novels in Spanish literature of the 21st century

Noelia S. García Logo ORCID

Abstract

The 2008 crisis produced a readjustment of social relationships in Spain, which was mirrored by an alternative discourse in fiction which renews the canon and enhances the construction of a fictional reality that reflects society. The most contemporary narrators display a wide variety of discourses on the assimilation of the crisis. This article analyse three novels. Robert Juan-Cantavella’s El Dorado, which was published on the year the crisis began and shows the triumph of neoliberalism and consumerism in the holiday town in the years before the crisis. Alternatively, Elvira Navarro’s La trabajadora and Sara Mesa’s Cicatriz offer a realistic point of view of the impact of the crisis on urban structures and the job insecurity it caused.

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García, N. S. (2022). Narrating the city: Neoliberalism, consumerism, digital age and economic crisis novels in Spanish literature of the 21st century. Romanica Silesiana, 22(2), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.31261/RS.2022.22.03

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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2022)
Published: 2023-05-12


ISSN: 1898-2433
eISSN: 2353-9887

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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