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Fantastic, The, in literature. --- Fantasy fiction --- English fiction --- Fantastic fiction --- Heroic fantasy (Fiction) --- Fantasy literature --- Fiction --- Fantastic, The (Aesthetics), in literature --- History and criticism.

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A través de los catorce capítulos que componen este libro se realiza un recorrido por lo fantástico español desde los primeros años del modernismo hasta el presente, y a través de sus diversas manifestaciones ficcionales: narrativa, teatro, cine, televisión y cómic, mostrando, además, las interrelaciones y mutuas influencias entre ellas, y trazando así las líneas que definen la historia y evolución de lo fantástico en la cultura española contemporánea.

Fantasy literature, Spanish --- Spanish literature --- Fantastic, The. --- Fantastic, The, in literature. --- Fantasy fiction --- Literatura fantástica española --- Literatura española --- El fantástico. --- El fantástico en literatura. --- Fantasía de ficción --- Fantastic, The (Aesthetics), in literature --- Fantastic, The (Aesthetics) --- Aesthetics --- Fantastic literature, Spanish --- Spanish fantasy literature --- History and criticism. --- Historia y crítica.

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Fantastic, The, in music. --- Music --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy and aesthetics.

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Even though the fantastic (in its most inclusive definition) has been a part of our culture for as long as it exists, it has not been a prominent feature of European academic interest. With its inherent transgressive moment the fantastic allows for an ideal space of the cultural negotiation of political, social and physical boundaries, which should place it at the center of popular cultural research, not as is the case, at its periphery. But the commencing boom of fantastic themes in contemporary media production has facilitated a paradigmatic change in research, prompting a wide interest in the fantastic in all its forms, from fantasy to horror, from fairy tale to science fiction. This volume addresses this growing interest by reviewing the status of research on the fantastic in Europe so far and by providing a necessary outlook for the future. In the essays current trends, such as the liminality debate, as well as established discourses, as for example on genre theory, are brought together to show interested researchers a network of interdisciplinary (from literary, media and social studies) approaches towards the fantastic.

Fantastic, The, in literature. --- Fantasy fiction -- History and criticism. --- Literature and society -- Europe. --- Science fiction -- History and criticism. --- Fantastic, The, in literature --- Literature and society --- Fantasy fiction --- Science fiction --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Fantastic, The (Aesthetics), in literature --- Fantasy. --- Science Fiction.

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Working Juju examines how fantastical and unreal modes are deployed in portrayals of the Caribbean in popular and literary culture as well as in the visual arts. The Caribbean has historically been constructed as a region mantled by the fantastic. Andrea Shaw Nevins analyzes such imaginings of the Caribbean and interrogates the freighting of Caribbean-infused spaces with characteristics that register as fantastical. These fantastical traits may be described as magical, supernatural, uncanny, paranormal, mystical, and speculative. The book asks throughout, What are the discursive threads that run through texts featuring the Caribbean fantastic? In Working Juju, Nevins teases out the multilayered and often obscured connections among texts such as the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, planter and historian Edward Long's History of Jamaica, and Grenadian sci-fi writer Tobias Buckell's Xenowealth series set in the future Caribbean. Fantastical representations of the region generally occupy one of two spaces. In the first, the Caribbean fantastic facilitates an imagining of the colonial experience and its aftermath as one in which the region and its representatives exercise agency and in which the humanity of the region's inhabitants is asserted. Alternately, the fantastic is sometimes situated as a signifier of the irrational and uncivilized. The thread that unites portrayals of the fantastic Caribbean in the latter kind of works is that they tend to locate Caribbean belief systems as powerful, even at times inadvertently in contradiction to the text's ideological posture. Nevins shows how the singular "Caribbean" identity that emerges in these text is at odds with the complex historical narratives of actual Caribbean countries and colonies.

Literature and history --- Literature and society --- Religion and literature --- Magic in literature. --- Fantastic, The, in art. --- Fantastic, The, in literature. --- Caribbean literature (English) --- Fantastic, The (Aesthetics), in literature --- Literature --- Literature and religion --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Moral and religious aspects --- Social aspects --- Caribbean Area --- Caribbean Free Trade Association countries --- Caribbean Region --- Caribbean Sea Region --- West Indies Region --- Intellectual life. --- Social life and customs. --- Civilization.