Seminar in Modern Spanish Literature: City in Disarray: Apocalyptic Imaginaries in Spanish Neoliberal Crisis

In Spain, the economic, social, and political crisis (now reopened by covid19 crisis) entails the proliferation of apocalyptic narratives. The last two decades of neoliberal policies of dispossession, intensified by the 2008 economic depression, have transformed the Spanish territory and, therefore, the ways people inhabited it and perceived it. In that regard, imaginaries on doomsday occupied a central place in cultural representations. This course explores through characteristic tropes of the apocalyptic imaginaries (related to space degradation) the reasons, effects, and affects generated by these representations projected on the city.