The aim of this study is to theorize a recovery of the literary aesthetics of Spanish Tremendismo within ultracontemporary Spanish narrative. In particular, it analyses Panza de burro by Andrea Abreu (2020), El celo by Sabina Urraca (2024), and Cabezas cortadas by Pablo Gutiérrez (2018), considering these texts as works that update the Tremendist notions of violence, rawness, and attention to the body, reconfiguring them in relation to contemporary issues such as precarity, biopolitical control, and the subalternization of subjects. The central axis of the analysis is the anti–hegemonic role of the subalternity embodied by the characters who inhabit these narratives, with a particular focus on the body as both a space and an instrument of invasion, and on the periphery as a spatial margin and a vital condition of subalternity. The thesis argues that body and periphery may function as sites of resistance to normative discourse, while simultaneously remaining trapped in dynamics that reproduce the very violence they endure.
El objetivo de este trabajo es teorizar una recuperación de la estética literaria del Tremendismo español en la narrativa española de la ultracontemporaneidad. En particular, se analizan las obras Panza de burro de Andrea Abreu (2020), El celo de Sabina Urraca (2024) y Cabezas cortadas de Pablo Gutiérrez (2018), consideradas como textos que actualizan las ideas tremendistas de violencia, de crudeza y de atención al cuerpo, desplazándolas hacia las problemáticas contemporáneas de precariedad, control biopolítico y subalternización de los sujetos. El eje central del análisis es el papel anti-hegemónico de la subalternidad de los personajes que protagonizan los relatos, con enfoque en el cuerpo como espacio e instrumento de conquista, y la periferia como margen espacial y condición vital de subalternidad. La tesis expone que cuerpo y periferia pueden constituirse como espacios de resistencia frente al discurso normativo, pero también quedan atrapados en dinámicas de reiteración de la misma violencia que sufren.
Crudezas anti-hegemónicas: subalternidad geo-corporal y nuevos tremendismos en la narrativa española ultracontemporánea
CARRARO, GLORIA
2025/2026
Abstract
The aim of this study is to theorize a recovery of the literary aesthetics of Spanish Tremendismo within ultracontemporary Spanish narrative. In particular, it analyses Panza de burro by Andrea Abreu (2020), El celo by Sabina Urraca (2024), and Cabezas cortadas by Pablo Gutiérrez (2018), considering these texts as works that update the Tremendist notions of violence, rawness, and attention to the body, reconfiguring them in relation to contemporary issues such as precarity, biopolitical control, and the subalternization of subjects. The central axis of the analysis is the anti–hegemonic role of the subalternity embodied by the characters who inhabit these narratives, with a particular focus on the body as both a space and an instrument of invasion, and on the periphery as a spatial margin and a vital condition of subalternity. The thesis argues that body and periphery may function as sites of resistance to normative discourse, while simultaneously remaining trapped in dynamics that reproduce the very violence they endure.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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