The changing Spanish family
Subtitle: essays on new views in literature, cinema and theater
By: edited by Tiffany Trotman
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780786464043
Subjects: Family in literature; Mothers in literature; Mothers in motion pictures; Spanish literature; Family in motion pictures; History and criticism
Description: "Spain stands among Western countries that have recently embraced non-traditional families. Declining dominance of extended families, single-parent households, and increasing numbers of working mothers have transformed what it means to be a "Spanish family." This essay collection examines how authors, filmmakers and playwrights are exploring the cultural manifestations that come from the redefining of Spanish society"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Tiffany Trotman; title: Why we are all in the club: El club de las malas madres / Catherine Bourland Ross; title: Hypermodern families in Angela Vallvey's Los estados Carenciales / Tiffany Trotman; title: All turbulent on the home front: unfulfilled working mothers in Almudena Grandes' Atlas de geografia humana / Lorraine Ryan; title: New conceptions of family in contemporary Galician narrative: visions of maternity in the works of MarIa Jose Queizan and Teresa Moure / Marisol Rodriguez Rodriguez; title: Feminism and motherhood in the police novels of Alicia Giménez Bartlett / Renee Craig-Odders; title: Charting the new nuclear family in Pedro Almodovar's Los abrazos rotos / Samuel Amago; title: Recovering gender: motherhood and female identity in El pajaro de la felicidad and Gary Cooper que esten Los cielos / Diana M. Barnes; title: Picking a fight with domestic violence: new perspectives on patriarchy in contemporary Spanish cinema / Paul Begin; title: Meet the nihilists: the disintegration of the contemporary Spanish family in Pedro Aguilera's La influencia / Amy L. Tibbitts; title: Parents on stage in contemporary Spanish theater / Candyce Leonard; title: Basque identity on stage: history, family constructs, and the troubled mother in Maite Agirre's Bilbao: lauaxeta, tiros y besos and Teresa Calo Fontin's El dia en que invente tu nombre / Tracie Amend; title: Mother-daughter relationships in contemporary Spanish theater / Cristina Casado Presa.