From the Baroque to Twitter: Tracing the Literary Heritage of Digital Genres

• Claire Taylor ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Liverpool

     University of Liverpool

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Comparative Critical Studies, ISSN 1744-1854, Vol. 13, Nº. 3, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Experimental Narratives: From the Novel to Digital Storytelling), págs. 307-329
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article explores contemporary digital literary genres and the complex negotiations they undertake with earlier moments of literary experimentation. Exploring digital literary genres as works on a continuum, the article addresses in particular the ways in which authors of digital works in the Hispanic world speak back to rich Hispanic tradition of literary experimentation. In order to do so, the article takes three case studies from different countries: firstly, the hypermedia novela negra of Colombian author Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez; secondly, the blog aphorisms of US-Salvadoran artist and writer Eduardo Navas; and the electronic poetry of Spanish-Argentine author Belén Gache. The article traces their response to prior literary experimentation, and their engagement – often critical – with the discourses of contemporary digital technologies. In their different ways, these three authors make sustained intertextual references to prior generations of literary experimentation at the same time as making frequent metatextual references to the process of their works’ own (digital) creation. The article argues that, in so doing, their overt references to digital technologies themselves often play with, and yet question or thwart, key notions of interactive literature.