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The Ties That Bind comprises the first collection of critical essays that explore the family system in Spanish and Latin American culture. This thought-provoking volume addresses the intersection of language, narrative structure, social reality, and family dynamics through examples from a diverse range of literary works, including Cervantes' Don Quijote, Reinaldo Arenas' Celestino antes del alba, and the Chicano film My Family/Mi Familia. 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

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Questioning Family Dynamics and Family Discourse in Hispanic Literature and Film
Chapter 4 Shifting Families and Incest in Chacel and Moix
Chapter 5 Dysfunction, Discord, and Wedded Bliss: Baroque Families in Don Quixote
Chapter 6 Matrofobia y matrilinealidad en Un aire de familia de Silvia Italiano
Chapter 7 Dysfunctional Family, Dysfunctional Nation: El cuarto mundo by Diamela Eltit
Chapter 8 Familia y comunidad como bases del proceso de adaptación social en tres largometrajes chicanos:. . . y no se lo tragó la tierro, El Norte y My Family/Mi familia
Chapter 9 Celestino antes del alba: The Family as Agent of the Community
Chapter 10 Family in Levi Calderón's Dos mujeres: Post Traumatic Stress or Lesbian Utopia?
Chapter 11 Appendix: Viability of FST for Latin America
Chapter 12 Index
Chapter 13 Contributors

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Published 30 Apr 2004
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 212
ISBN 9780761826491
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 215 x 169 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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