Cybermigrations. Digital extraterritoriality in the contemporary Hispanic literature

Abstract

In the last decades, the rise of the digital technologies, especially internet, has spread its influence among almost every social and cultural behavior in Western countries. Literature -and, obviously, literature written in Spanish as well- has been clearly receptive to these changes in many ways: the experience of writing, the habitus (Bourdieu) in the literary field, the themes developed by the novels, short stories and poems, the increasing of the manners to gather information in the web, the immediate communication between writers, and so on. Besides, this growth of the literary field has opened the cultural doors to the phenomenon of cybermigration (Robin), which allows to all e-citizens of the Pangea (Mora) the enlargement of possibilities to exceed or outweigh their national identity, through the willingly adscription to other social and cultural instances or agencies. The result of the sum of all these factors has been the proliferation of fictions and literary works written in a real or symbolic digital extraterritoriality, both in Spain and Latin-America.