| Description |
1 online resource (181 p.). |
| Series |
Iberian and Latin American Studies
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Iberian and Latin American studies.
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| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Homo narrans, homo sapiens -- or, why tell stories? -- Apocalypse now (and then): a beginner's guide to the end -- A Spanish (hi)story -- Metanarrative 1: Two Spains -- Metanarrative 2: Spain is different -- Metanarrative 3: The myth of the Transition -- Apocalypse and sublimation -- Why science fiction? -- The texts -- 2 Apocalypse and apotheosis in Rosa Montero's Temblor -- History, science fiction and the fantastic -- Mining the monomyth -- Apocalypse |
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3 Apocalypse and alienation in Javier Negrete's Nox perpetua -- Apocalypse Nox -- Speaking of science, fictionally -- The once and future us -- Alienation and the technological grotesque -- 4 The Mater of all apocalypses: Juan Miguel Aguilera's La locura de Dios -- A dialogics of the Two Spains -- or, a Llull in the action -- A most apocalyptic apocalypse -- A steampunk City of God? -- 5 Enlightening the apocalypse: Enrique del Barco's Punto Omega -- Getting to the point: Teilhard de Chardin's Omega Point theory -- Science fiction 1: Being human -- Science fiction 2: Observe -- the observer |
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Posthuman, all too human: the posthuman apocalypse -- The end of ideologies -- or the birth of global totalitarianism? -- 6 Born to kill: Eduardo Vaquerizo's Mentes de noche y hielo -- Past imperfect, future imperfect -- Conclusion: the birth of ambivalent gods -- 7 'Fiery the angels rose': José Miguel Pallarés and Amadeo Garrigós's Tiempo prestado -- The science fictional and Clarke's third law -- Apocalypse: of angels and monsters -- 'Your brother will rise again' -- Creation and evolution -- 'Another book was opened, which is the Book of Life' -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works cited |
| Summary |
This study explains the apparently paradoxical coexistence of scientific and religious world views in Spanish apocalyptic fictions from 1990-2005 as a result of the traditional conflict between conservative and liberal Spain, Spanish exceptionalism, and the lack of reckoning for crimes committed during the Civil War and dictatorship during Spain's transition to democracy, before contextualising these fictions globally. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science fiction, Spanish -- History and criticism.
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Apocalypse in literature.
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Spain -- In literature.
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Apocalypse in literature |
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Literature |
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Science fiction, Spanish |
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Spain |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Knickerbocker, Dale Spain is different? Cardiff : University of Wales Press,c2021 |
| ISBN |
1786838141 |
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1786838133 (electronic bk.) |
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9781786838131 (electronic bk.) |
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9781786838148 (electronic bk.) |
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9781786838124 (hbk.) |
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