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Title Page
Table of Contents
Introduction: Generation X and Rock: The Sounds of a New Tradition
I. Rocking the Academy: Generation X Narratives
1. A Distopian Culture: The Minimalist Paradigm in the Generation X
2. The Pistols Strike Again! On the Function of Punk in the Peninsular "Generation X" Fiction of Ray Loriga and Benjamin Prado
3. What We Talk About When We Talk About Dirty Realism in Spain
II. Can Anyone Rock Like We Do?: Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll, Then and Now
4. Can Anyone Rock Like We Do? Or, How the Gen X Aesthetic Transcends the Age of the Writer
5. Apocalypses Now: The End of Spanish Literature? Reading Payasos en la Lavadora as Critical Parody
6. Not Your Father's Rock and Roll: Listening to Transitional/Eighties Writers and Generation X
III. Historias del Kronen on the Rocks
7. Between Rock and the Rocking Chair: The Epilogue's Resistance in Historias del Kronen
8. Realism on the Rocks in the Generational Novel: "Rummies," Rhythm, and Rebellion in Historias del Kronen and The Sun Also Rises
IV. Rocking the Road with Ray Loriga
9. Reckless Driving: Speed, Mobility, and Transgression in the Spanish "Rock 'n' Road" Novel
10. Television and the Power of Image in Caidos del cielo and La pistola de mi hermano by Ray Loriga
11. Rocking around Ray Loriga's Heroes: Video-Clip Literature and the Televisual Subject
V. The Soundtrack of Gender: Violating Visions and the Psychological Power of Rock
12. Watching, Wanting, and the Gen X Soundtrack of Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo
13. Saved by Art: Entrapment and Freedom in Iciar Bollain's Te doy mis ojos
Afterword: The Moment X in Spanish Narrative (and Beyond)
Contributors
Index