What is an Author in the XXIst Century? The Dissolution of Traditional Legitimation Spaces
Abstract
In 1970, Michel Foucault administered a conference entitled “What is an Author?”. By placing the 20th century behind us to concentrate on the 21st, by means of events that have transformed our social reality with the birth of the internet, we ask ourselves the same question again. Based on the Mancha’s work about the Spanish literary world in the nineties and the universe of the flash fiction writers in the current days, this article lays out a reflection about how the concept of author has been transforming from that well-known Michel Foucault’s conference till now.
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