Political Literature: The Beginnings of a Genealogy

Abstract

What are we talking about when we speak of political literature? This text aims, first of all, to answer the question and does so starting from the absence —or confusion, at least— of a definition as such in the history of Spanish literature of the twentieth century. Tracing the appearances of the notion of politics associated with the noun 'literature' or 'novel', the work thus presents a reformulation of the syntagm that is based on the ideological consideration of all literary discourse and on the need to handle a concrete idea of politics, far from clichés and institutions. The second objective of the text is to open the doors to the possibility of a transnational genealogy of political literature.