The Ties That Bind Questioning Family Dynamics and Family Discourse in Hispanic Literature

by Cooper, Sara E.; D. Miller, : Donald; Cardoso, Dinora C.; Ramsdell, Lea; Mayock, Ellen; Criado-Reyes, Miryam; André, María Claudia

• ISBN13: 9780761826491
• ISBN10: 0761826491
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-30
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Issues of feminism, gender and sexuality, abuse, trauma, and communication take the forefront in this ground-breaking book, which takes psychological literary criticism a step beyond traditional psychoanalytical approaches.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Questioning Family Dynamics and Family Discourse in Hispanic Literature and Film
Sara E. Cooper	1	(42)
Chapter 2 Shifting Families and Incest in Chacel and Moix
Ellen Mayock	43	(20)
Chapter 3 Dysfunction, Discord, and Wedded Bliss: Baroque Families in Don Quixote
Donald D. Miller	63	(16)
Chapter 4 Matrofobia y matrilinealidad en Un aire de familia de Silvia Italiano
Miryam Criado	79	(24)
Chapter 5 Dysfunctional Family, Dysfunctional Nation: El cuarto mundo by Diamela Eltit
Lea Ramsdell	103	(24)
Chapter 6 Familia y comunidad como bases del proceso de adaptación social en tres largometrajes chicanos: ...y no se lo tragó la tierra, El Norte y My Family/Mi familia
Maria Claudia André	127	(28)
Chapter 7 Celestino antes del alba: The Family as Agent of the Community
Dinora Cardoso	155	(16)
Chapter 8 Family in Levi Calderón's Dos mz jeres: Post Traumatic Stress or Lesbian Utopia?
Sara E. Cooper	171	(14)
Appendix: Viability of FST for Latin America	185	(12)
Index	197	(2)
Contributors	199