- Referencia: PID2019-104526GB-I00
- Financiado por Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad.
- Investigadora principal: Paula Martín Salván.
- Duración: 1/9/2024-31/8/2027.
- Participantes:
- Jesús Blanco Hidalga (UCO)
- Mª Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno (UCO)
- Paula Martín Salván (UCO)
- Mª Luisa Pascual Garrido (UCO)
- Juan Luis Pérez de Luque (UCO)
- María Valero Redondo (UCO)
Proyecto coordinador del proyecto Poetics and Politics of Transparency in Contemporary Literature in English, con la Universidad de Granada.
Resumen
The project Transparency, opacity, resistance in Contemporary Literature in English focuses on the dialectics between a totalizing and totalitarian fantasy of transparency and the adversarial practices of resistance to it through discursive and aesthetic forms of indeterminacy and opacity. At stake is the opposition between Western forms of epistemology grounded on a rhetoric of visibility, publicity and transparency and the way fiction can enact the dissolution of transparency, obscuring comprehension and thematically transparent readings. Examples of the former explored and targeted by the authors included in the corpus detailed below include the forms of the confession, testimony, nationalist historical discourse or scholarly verification conventions such as notes or citations. These authors rely on a wide range of narrative genres such as science fiction, horror, melodrama, detective fiction, migration narrative or the family saga to challenge the dynamics between occultation and revelation typically at work in such narrative forms.
This project integrates in a structure of coordinated projects, together with Visibility, community, identity in Contemporary Literature in English (IP. Gerardo Rodríguez Salas, U. Granada). It emerges from a research line that has delved into the dynamics of secrecy, community, and dissidence in contemporary literature in English. Building on our previous projects, "Secrecy and community in contemporary narrative in English (2017-2019) and "Democracy, Secrecy, and Dissidence in contemporary literature in English (2020-2023), the research team seeks to shift their focus to the examination of transparency in contemporary culture. The project aims to investigate the omnipresence and contradictory values associated with transparency, challenging the prevailing rhetoric that positions it as an unequivocal virtue in political and cultural discourse. The team draws on theoretical work produced in the emerging field of Critical Transparency Studies, encompassing sociology, political theory, and cultural studies, which critiques the pervasive rhetoric of transparency in public and political life. While transparency is often hailed as a cornerstone of democratic governance, our proposal contends that it is essential to scrutinize the ideological contradictions inherent in the concept, and to critically examine its depoliticizing and commodifying effects. In summary, this project seeks to critically examine the ideological contradictions inherent in the concept of transparency through its literary representations, assessing the validity and implications of its central hypothesis. Through an interdisciplinary approach that combines literary studies with sociological, political, and cultural perspectives, the research aims to contribute to the evolving discourse on transparency and its multifaceted implications in contemporary society.