Bias in Literary History: Three Popular Narrative Genres in Spanish and their Sources

Abstract

This work examines the presence and presentation of gothic, fantasy and science fiction in several histories of Spanish and Latin-American literature. These three genres date back to at least the nineteenth century and they remain ever so popular. In particular, this work focuses on a trend that systematically either omits or minimizes these genres. This trend is in sharp contrast with the picture obtained from primary sources and it allows to demonstrate a strong presence of the aforementioned genres in in Spanish.