Series | Library of Rassegna iberistica
Edited book | Novela postcrisis en la España plurilingüe
Chapter | Imaginarios dóciles, ansiedades soberanas
Abstract
Dystopian fiction, by projecting alternative futures, serves as a mirror reflecting the worst possible outcomes of contemporary issues and reveals a society’s political anxieties from a specific historical period. This chapter explores what has been excluded from that range in a selection of dystopian and post-apocalyptic science fiction written in Galician between the onset of the financial crisis in 2008 and 2022: the absence of visions of an independent Galicia. The author concludes that this omission results from both a lack of political imagination and the effects of normalization processes.
Submitted: Dec. 20, 2023 | Accepted: Feb. 23, 2024 | Published Sept. 23, 2024 | Language: es
Keywords Nationalism Studies • Dystopia • 2008 financial crisis • Galician Studies • Galician literature
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