History, Violence, and the Hyperreal: Representing Culture in the Contemporary Spanish Novel

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Index audiovisual. See media author implied author, 23, 60–61, 136, 141–42, 147, 171, 177 and model reader, 26, 48, 52, 54–57, 61. See also novel relationship to reader, 5, 22–24, 55, 146–47, 192n6 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 23–24 Barthes, Roland, 113–14, 184 Baudrillard, Jean, x, 18–19, 112, 187. See also hyperreality simulacra, 19–20, 127–32, 135, 137, 187–88 Benjamin, Walter, 22–23 body female eroticized, 148–52 as site of violence, 135, 138. See also violence Booth, Wayne, 23–24, 89, 141, 142, 147 Bourdieu, Pierre, 12–15, 120, 122–23, 184, 189n6 Caídos del cielo (Loriga), x, 8, 19, 23, 116, 119, 121–23 Cercas, Javier, ix, 48, 85–109, 193n1 Relatos reales, 85 Soldados de Salamina, ix, 7, 26, 54, 85–101, 171, 178 La velocidad de la luz, ix, 7, 86, 101–09, 178 Chacón, Dulce, ix, 48, 63–67, 69–84, 109, 192n2 La voz dormida, ix, 7, 22, 26, 63–84, 139 Cixous, Hélène, 45, 65, 66, 69–70 conversos. See Dins el darrer blau criptojudíos. See Dins el darrer blau culture definition of, vii, 6–8 development of, 8–12 high and low, 9–11 and history, 15–18 and the hyperreal, 18–21 and the Internet, 3 popular, 11–12 violence in, 21–25 De todo lo visible y lo invisible (Etxebarria), xi, 8, 22, 134–48, 151–52, 156 in relation to Mañas’s works, 171, 178, 180 diary. See documents used in literature: diary Dins el darrer blau (Riera), 6, 7, 31–46, 185 auto de fe, viii, 28, 35, 42 conversos, 31–32 problematic representation of, 36–37 women, 41–44 documents used in literature forms, 139–40, 195n3 diary, 95–97 letters, 53–54, 66–67, 71, 78–80, 192n6 Eco, Umberto, ix, 48, 54, 60–61, 155, 190n12, 191ch2n4 model reader, 26. See also author: model reader open and closed texts, 50–52 epilogue, 157–58, 160, 165–69 Etxebarria, Lucía, xi, 5, 112–13, 117, 187–88, 195n1 Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas, 150 211 212 Index Etxebarria, Lucía (continued) Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes, 5, 135 De todo lo visible y lo invisible , xi, 8, 22, 134–48, 151–52, 156 in relation to Mañas’s works, 171, 178, 180 and the Internet, 134, 148–52 La letra futura, 133 Yo no sufro por amor, 189n5 female solidarity, 38–39 feminism. See women film, x, 119–20, 123–27, 144, 161–63, 195ch5nn5–6 Franco, Francisco, 17, 69, 118. See also Spanish Civil War Generation X, viii, 111–14, 115, 181, 193n3, 194n1 criticism of, 116–17, 133 as defined in Spain, 4–6 Generation X: Tales of an Accelerated Culture, 117 and violence, 21, 113 Gerard, René, ix, 22, 33, 38, 40, 44, 191nn5–7 feminist criticism of, 35–37 globalization, 3, 5, 7–8, 24, 112–14, 117–18, 156 hero, 88, 98–100, 103–08 Historias del Kronen (Mañas), xi, 8, 23, 155–70 American Psycho in, 163, 168–69, 196n7, 197n8, 197n12 A Clockwork Orange in, 161–63, 196n7 history. See also Nietzsche, Friedrich fictionalization of, 89, 98–100, 103–05 and “reality,” 27–29 as represented in the present, 45–46, 64–65 writing women into, 69–70. See also Cixous, Hélène and violence, 31–32 hombre que inventó Manhattan, El (Loriga), x, 8, 116, 127–32 hyperreality, xi, 15, 111–14, 187, 189n1, 189n8. See also Baudrillard, Jean in Etxebarria’s works, 135, 137, 140, 145, 147, 152 in Loriga’s works, 127, 131–32 in Mañas’s works, 178 identity crisis, 158 and memory, 57–59 Spanish national, vii, 16–17 Internet. See media intertextuality, xi, 156, 165, 172 Jews in Spain. See Dins el darrer blau Kristeva, Julia, 58, 192n5, 197n14 language appropriation of English, 178–80 gendered, 74–75 literary, vii, 3, 11, 65, 116 visual and verbal, xi, 115, 165. See also film letters. See documents used in literature: letters Loriga, Ray, x, 4, 112–13, 115, 135–36, 187, 194ch5n2, 195n8 Caídos del cielo, x, 8, 19, 23, 116, 119, 121–23 criticism of Gen X movement, 116–17, 133 213 Index Héroes, 116 El hombre que inventó Manhattan , x, 8, 116, 127–32 Lo peor de todo, 115 La pistola de mi hermano, x, 116, 119–20,123–27...