Hypermedia Flash Fiction: Semiotic Hybridity in the Work of Patricia Esteban Erles

With the twist in contemporary thinking toward the text-visual and multimedia culture, the literary genres, as well as flash fiction, go beyond what is written in some symbiotic creations in which text and image can be contemplated all at once in a perceptive unit. Beginning with the narrative strategies that come together in both languages and with the conceptual formulation of hypermedia flash fiction, the interaction of the verbal and visual components is analyzed (in particular, the photographic one) in the flash fiction stories that Patricia Esteban Erles has published in Facebook. The fantastic imaginary universe of these mini-narratives is covered with the net of the large semiotic density, which multiplies the networks of narrative significance. In this order of ideas, the interaction between the imaginaries of Patricia Esteban Erles and Diane Arbus regarding the grotesque and the sinister is studied.