The changing Spanish family: essays on new views in literature, cinema and theater

"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 exam...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jefferson, N.C. [u.a.] McFarland 2011
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / Tiffany Trotman -- Why we are all in the club: El club de las malas madres / Catherine Bourland Ross -- Hypermodern families in Angela Vallvey's Los estados Carenciales / Tiffany Trotman -- All turbulent on the home front: unfulfilled working mothers in Almudena Grandes' Atlas de geografia humana / Lorraine Ryan -- New conceptions of family in contemporary Galician narrative: visions of maternity in the works of MarIa Jose Queizan and Teresa Moure / Marisol Rodriguez Rodriguez -- Feminism and motherhood in the police novels of Alicia Giménez Bartlett / Renee Craig-Odders -- Charting the new nuclear family in Pedro Almodovar's Los abrazos rotos / Samuel Amago -- Recovering gender: motherhood and female identity in El pajaro de la felicidad and Gary Cooper que esten Los cielos / Diana M. Barnes -- Picking a fight with domestic violence: new perspectives on patriarchy in contemporary Spanish cinema / Paul Begin -- Meet the nihilists: the disintegration of the contemporary Spanish family in Pedro Aguilera's La influencia / Amy L. Tibbitts -- Parents on stage in contemporary Spanish theater / Candyce Leonard -- 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 -- Mother-daughter relationships in contemporary Spanish theater / Cristina Casado Presa
Beschreibung:VI, 220 S. Ill.

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