SPN 306 - The Remake: Spanish Narrative and New Media

Course Units: 1.0

The contemporary Spanish authors known as “Generacion Nocilla” or the Mutantes are well-connected and savvy users of new media and social networking sites. They maintain their own web pages, they write blogs, produce videos and book trailers, and adopt narrative techniques from digital media. Who are they? And how have they disrupted literary traditions through fiction? Students in this course will critically explore the relationship between identity, technology, and storytelling through theoretical texts on rhizomes, topology, sampling, and remaking. They will then engage in a close reading and analysis of the most influential novel of the time: Nocilla Dream by Agustín Fernandez Mallo. And as a class, students will work collaboratively to write and design a critical-creative remake of the novel with the goal of sending it to the author himself. Prerequisite(s): Two 250-299 level courses, or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUM, HUL, WAC-R