Theoretical and historical frontiers of miniffiction

Abstract

In this work, I consider any short text of a literary nature to be a minifiction. Relying on this general definition, I propose to examine some of the boundaries that shape the ultra-brief forms of writing in contemporary literature. These boundaries call into question the theoretical and historical nature of minifiction, which allows them to be understood as genological (or generic), genealogical (or historiograhical) and instrumental boundaries, respectively.