“Senserostre és el malnom”: los parias en la narrativa breve no mimética española y catalana del s. XXI
“Senserostre és el malnom”: The Pariahs in Spanish and Catalan Non-mimetic Short Fiction of the 21st Century

Summary/Abstract: This article contributes to the study of sociopolitical issues in non-mimetic literature in the light of the concept of pariah. The aim of the work was to analyze the use of the fantastic and projective fiction with regard to the representation of the pariahs either as victims or as victimizers-avengers. Following an approach to the pariah’s question in the fantastic during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a selection of Spanish and Catalan short stories published in the twenty-first century by Albert Sánchez Piñol, David Roas, José María García Hernández and Carme Torra are analyzed. Th e article shows that fantastic and projective texts continue to work as proper ways of protesting and denouncing injustices. Moreover, in them the pariah victims are no longer merely discriminated and silenced minorities, but their cases and types have been diversified in accordance with the complexity of the contemporary world.

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