Generation X Rocks
Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture
Ed. Christine Henseler and Randolph D. Pope
Essays in this volume explore the popular cultural effects of rock culture on high literary production in Spain in the 1990s.
Generation X Rocks, available from Vanderbilt University Press
Table of Contents
Introduction
Generation X and Rock: The Sounds of a New Transition
Christine Henseler and Randolph D. Pope
Part I. Rocking the Academy: Generation X Narratives
Chapter 1
A Distopian Culture: The Minimalist Paradigm in the Generation X
Gonzalo Navajas
Chapter 2
The Pistols Strike Again! On the Function of Punk in the Peninsular “Generation X” Fiction of Ray Loriga and Benjamín Prado
Paul D. Begin
Chapter 3
What We Talk About When We Talk about Dirty Realism in Spain
Cintia Santana
Part II. Can Anyone Rock Like We Do?: Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll, Then and Now
Chapter 4
Can Anyone Rock Like We Do? Or, How the Gen X Aesthetic Transcends the Age of the Writer
Samuel Amago
Chapter 5
Apocalypses Now: The End of Spanish Literature? Reading Payasos en la lavadora as Critical Parody
Luis Martín-Cabrera
Chapter 6
Not Your Father’s Rock and Roll: Listening to Transitional/Eighties Writers and Generation X
Elizabeth Scarlett
Part III. Historias del Kronen on the Rocks
Chapter 7
Between Rock and the Rocking Chair: The Epilogue’s Resistance in the Historias del Kronen
Randolph D. Pope
Chapter 8
Realism on the Rocks in the Generational Novel: “Rummies,” Rhythm, and Rebellion in Historias del Kronen and The Sun Also Rises
Matthew J. Marr
Part IV. Rocking the Road with Ray Loriga
Chapter 9
Reckless Driving: Speed, Mobility, and Transgression in the Spanish “Rock ‘n’ Road” Novel
Jorge Pérez
Chapter 10
Television and the Power of Image in Caídos del cielo and La pistola de mi hermano by Ray Loriga
Kathryn Everly
Chapter 11
Rocking around Ray Loriga’s Héroes: Vide-Clip Literature and the Televisual Subject
Christine Henseler
Part V. The Soundtrack of Gender: Violating Visions and the Psychological Power of Rock
Chapter 12
Watching, Wanting, and the Gen X Soundtrack of Gabriela Bustelo’s Veo Veo
Nina Molinaro
Chapter 13
Saved by Art: Entrapment and Freedom in Icíar Bollaín’s Te doy mis ojos
Linda Gould Levine
Afterword
The Moment X in Spanish Narrative (and Beyond)
Luis Martín-Estudillo