Problemas de género en dos distopías peninsulares: de Rendición de Loriga a La gran abundancia de Moreno-Caballud

Abstract

This article confronts two contemporary approaches to Dystopia within the current debate about the genre. The purpose is to rise several issues that relates an aesthetical problem (Dystopia as a genre) with gender representation as it is portrayed on these works. On the one hand, the novel Rendición by Ray Loriga, it is attached to the most reactionary gender representations ever appeared in classic Dystopias. On the other, La gran abundancia by Moreno-Caballud subverts the male-female dynamics used by Loriga and several classic dystopic texts to break monologism. Moreno´s novel opens up a new ethical and political dystopic view, based on the care of others and self-care. This comparison between two very different texts tries to show Dystopia as a cultural genre on dispute, and not as a dogmatic set of rules working in favor of current capitalist forces, as several cultural critics (Zizek, Martorell…) have tried to define it over the last decade.