A review about Movimientos exocanónicos de la literatura contemporánea de Sheila Pastor, José Antonio Paniagua García, Teresa Gómez Trueba (eds.): Movimientos exocanónicos de la literatura contemporánea, Salamanca, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2022, 246 páginas

Abstract

Contemporary literature has delegitimized the hegemonic literary institution during the last century; Its creative mechanisms and themes are committed to changing societies. The book reviewed Movimientos exocanónicos de la literatura contemporánea, edited by Sheila Pastor, J. Antonio Paniagua and Teresa Gómez, and published by the University of Salamanca, brings together twelve works that question the exocanonical spaces of production and dissemination, from a diversity of alternative scriptural forms; Many of these are collected and studied in this volume (song and rap, samples, trailer, short story, digital aesthetics, dystopias, etc.). This transdisciplinary perspective allows a description of the canon, far removed from "book-centric" centralism. The volume covered by this review is structured into two sections: «Technowritings and media relations», which has seven chapters dedicated to the aesthetic-theoretical analysis of the “exocanon” in harmony with the constant technological and artistic creation, and «Technological mediations and new subjectivities", which offers five chapters on exocanonical literature in coexistence with the contemporary. This review aims to demonstrate how this volume reveals how contemporary literature increasingly reflects counterhegemonic experimentations that renew the literary canon, its forms, spaces and realities in search of an opening.