Project: Themes and motives of the Hispanic narrative of speculative fiction (2010-2020). (NAHIFE-PIUA21/AH-002)

This research project aims to analyze the Hispanic (Spain and Latin America) speculative fiction narratives, published during the decade from 2010 to 2020, in the context of what Ziauddin Sardar calls post-normal times, to refer to a time of crisis and uncertainty.

From the elaboration of a computer database, the texts of the corpus will be emptied for the extraction of the trends, themes, motives, typologies, characteristics and alternatives reflected in the analyzed texts. With the statistical results obtained, we will be able to interpret and analyze the data to find out the presence or absence of certain issues and problems, as well as their particular treatment, in relation to the following thematic axes: climate change, colonial structures, biotechnological experimentation (with human and non-human beings), natural resources, social and ethnic hierarchies, the political system, big data, the medical-health system, the typologies of the urban and rural environment, the gender and sexuality system, the economic and market characteristics, demographic characteristics, as well as technological and scientific development

which is reflected in the narratives of the corpus. 

To carry out this work, a theoretical-philosophical approach will be based on the methodology of digital humanities, comparative literature, polysystems theory, cultural studies, decolonial studies, the sociology of literature, studies gender, urban studies, ecocriticism, as well as future studies from the perspective of prospective analysis for interpretation

of the quantitative data of the study.