La resiliencia del mito quijotesco: Don Quijote Z o el mash-up del clásico

Among recent rewritings of Don Quixote de la Mancha, the mash-up stands out as a relevant comment on the enduring presence of Cervantes’ text in contemporary culture. Don Quijote Z (2010) provides an original approach to the quixotic text: rather than rewriting Don Quixote into a different context, it inscribes zombie literature within the hypotext. Given its generic nature, the quixotic mash-up challenges the politics of exclusion from the canon, while highlighting in a self-referential manner its own position on its margins. It is able to develop a Cervantean parody not only of the Z genre, but also of scholarly * Este trabajo se ha realizado en el marco del proyecto de investigación «Orientation: una perspectiva dinámica sobre la ficción y la cultura contemporáneas (1990 – en adelante)» (Ref. FFI201786417-P). ** Universidad de Salamanca. miriambp@usal.es / ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-00028553-0769.