Perturbatory narration is a heuristic concept, applicable both quantitatively and qualitatively to a specific type of complex narratives for which narratology has not yet found an appropriate classification. This new term refers to complex narrative strategies that produce intentionally disturbing effects such as surprise, confusion, doubt or disappointment - effects that interrupt or suspend immersion in the aesthetic reception process. The initial task, however, is to indicate what narrative conventions are, in fact, questioned, transgressed, or given new life by perturbatory narration. The key to our modeling lies in its combination of individual procedures of narrative strategies hitherto regarded as unrelated. Their interplay has not yet attracted scholarly attention. The essays in this volume present a wide range of contemporary films from Canada, the USA, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France and Germany. The perturbatory narration concept enables to typify and systematize moments of disruption in fictional texts, combining narrative processes of deception, paradox and/or empuzzlement and to analyse these perturbing narrative strategies in very different filmic texts.

El estudio se dedica a representaciones historiograficas, literarias y filmicas del Descubrimiento y de la Conquista de America. A traves de apropiaciones variadas de los mismos acontecimientos historicos, los respectivos representantes artisticos se vinculan intertextual o intermedialmente. Las imagenes de ficcion crean una realidad, de ahi el titulo La Conquista imaginaria, que alude a la concepcion de la nacion como imagined community de Benedict Anderson (1983). Las narraciones ficcionales crean a la vez historia, puesto que influyen en el imaginario colectivo y operan como un dispositivo ideologico y memoristico. El objetivo es desenredar estas relaciones transtextuales y reconstruir las visiones singulares de la Conquista y su funcion.