The changing Spanish family essays on new views in literature, cinema and theater (McFarland, 2011)
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