Postmodern young subcultures: Stories of the Kronen as means of escape and resistance
Keywords:
youth subculture, subversion in Spain, Mañas, Kronen, subcultureAbstract
This article explores the consumerist culture adopted by the protagonists of
Histories of Kronen, by José Ángel Mañas, as a form of escape and resistance from
the norms of a society that does not offer any possibility of a future. The characters of
this novel present an attitude of constant defiance with the intention of anesthetizing
themselves against the alienation of the exterior world, of moving away from reality,
and of hiding the profound loneliness in which they find themselves. They resort to
drugs, sex, and alternative music as catalysts of their frustration with the culture of theabsurd and as a form of facing the disillusionment that characterizes the epoch in which they live. Through their integration in a consumerist subculture, they get to be owners of their actions and have true control over some aspect of their existence that consciously moves them further away from the established social prescription.
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