TABLE OF CONTENTS Christine Henseler and Randolph Pope Introduction I. ROCKING THE ACADEMY: GENERATION X NARRATIVES Gonzalo Navajas A Dystopian Culture. The Minimalist Paradigm in the Generation X Paul D. Begin The Pistols Strike Again! On the Function of Punk in Peninsular "Generation X" Fiction by Ray Loriga a Benjamín Prado Cintia Santana What We Talk About When We Talk About Dirty Realism in Spain II. CAN ANYONE ROCK LIKE WE DO?: SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK & ROLL THEN AND NOW Samuel Amago Can Anyone Rock Like We Do? Or, How the Gen X Aesthetic Transcends the Age of the Writer Luis Martín-Cabrera Apocalypses Now: The End of Spanish Literature? Reading Payasos en la Lavadora as Critical Parody Elizabeth Scarlett Not Your Father's Rock and Roll: Listening to Transitional/Eighties Writers and Generation X III. HISTORIAS DEL KRONEN ON THE ROCKS Randolph Pope Between Rock and the Rocking Chair: The Epilogue's Resistance in Historias del Kronen Matthew J. Marr Realism on the Rocks in the Generational Novel:: "Rummies," Rhythm, and Rebellion in Historias del Kronen & The Sun Also Rises IV. ROCKING THE ROAD WITH RAY LORIGA Jorge Pérez Reckless Driving: Speed, Mobility, and Transgression in the Spanish "Rock 'n' Road" Novel Kathryn Everly Television and the Power of Image in Caídos del cielo and La pistola de mi hermano by Ray Loriga.

Christine Henseler Rocking Around Ray Loriga's Héroes: Video Clip Literature and the Televisual Subject V. THE SOUNDTRACK OF GENDER: VIOLATING VISIONS AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL POWER OF ROCK Nina Molinaro Watching, Wanting, and the Gen X Soundtrack of Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo Linda Gould Levine Saved by Art?: Entrapment and Freedom in Icíar Bollaín's Te doy mis ojos Luis Martin-Estudillo Afterword.