Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film

Diana Q Palardy is Associate Professor of Spanish at Youngstown State University, USA. She has published articles in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Romance Notes, España Contemporánea, and Revista Chilena de Literatura. She is on the steering committee of the Society for Utopian Studies.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The Path to Voluntary Confinement: Dystopian Spaces of Consumerism in Ray Loriga’s Tokio ya no nos quiere.- 3. Grafting the Global North onto the Global South: Dystopian Transhumanism in Elia Barceló’s “Mil euros por tu vida”.- 4. The Architecture of Avarice in Ion de Sosa’s Sueñan los androides or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about the Economic Crisis and Love the Sheep.- 5. Sensescapes of Precarity in El salario del gigante by José Ardillo, Madrid: frontera by David Llorente, and Nos mienten by Eduardo Vaquerizo.- 6. The Cartography of In/subordination in El sistema by Ricardo Menéndez Salmón.- 7. Conclusion.