La resiliencia del mito quijotesco: Don Quijote Z o el mash-up del clásico

Miriam Borham-Puyal

doi:10.3989/anacervantinos.2020.002

Authors

Miriam Borham-Puyal Universidad de Salamanca https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8553-0769

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/anacervantinos.2020.002

Keywords:

Quixotism, Mash-up, Parody, Z Literature, Resilience, Liminality

Abstract

Among recent rewritings of Don Quixote de la Mancha, the mash-up stands out as a relevant comment on the enduring presence of Cervantes’ text in contemporary culture. Don Quijote Z (2010) provides an original approach to the quixotic text: rather than rewriting Don Quixote into a different context, it inscribes zombie literature within the hypotext. Given its generic nature, the quixotic mash-up challenges the politics of exclusion from the canon, while highlighting in a self-referential manner its own position on its margins. It is able to develop a Cervantean parody not only of the Z genre, but also of scholarly works, as well as to deliver a satirical approach to contemporary cultural and social values. This paper will analyse the reasons behind the quixotic resilience in literature and culture, together with its manifestation in the Z mash-up of Cervantes’ classic.

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