The Dynamics of Masculinity in Contemporary Spanish Culture

Herausgeber: Ryan, Lorraine; Corbalan, Ana

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume addresses how the construction of masculinities is experiencing a structural transformation which goes beyond existing theory. This book amalgamates original close readings of texts, films, and television series, which have not been widely considered by critics, such as Sin tetas, no hay paraíso and Ocho apellidos vasc

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780367885083
• ISBN-10: 0367885085
• Artikelnr.: 58437968

Autorenporträt

Ana Corbalán is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Alabama. She holds her Ph.D. from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her books include El cuerpo transgresor en la narrativa española contemporánea (Libertarias, 2009) and Memorias fragmentadas: Mirada transatlántica a la resistencia femenina contra las dictaduras, which is forthcoming with Iberoamericana/Vervuert in 2015. Lorraine Ryan is a Birmingham Fellow in the University of Birmingham, UK. She has published on the sociology of memory and representation of memory, gender and spatiality in contemporary Spanish culture in journals such as Hispania, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, and Memory Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Lists of contributors
Introduction: The Reconfiguration of Masculinity
Section I: The Forge and Cultural Subversion of Francoist Masculinity
Chapter One: Old Traditions and Revolutionary Tendencies by José Colmeiro
Chapter Two: The Poetics of Defeat in Alberto Méndez's Los girasoles ciegos
by Ellen Mayock
Chapter Three: Masculinity and Historical Memory by Olga Bezhanova
Chapter Four: Comic Masculinities by Lisa Renée DiGiovanni
Chapter Five: Memory and Masculinity in Almudena Grandes's El corazón
helado by Lorraine Ryan
Section II: The Reconfiguration of Hegemonic Masculinity
Chapter Six: Who's Your Daddy? by Jorge Pérez
Chapter Seven: Dwarves, Bullfighters, and Other Disenchanted Masculinities
in Pablo Berger's Blancanieves by Nina Molinaro
Chapter Eight: The Recession in Contemporary Spanish Cinema by Alicia
Castillo Villanueva
Chapter Nine: ReinFORCEment of Masculinity through Violence by Victoria L.
Ketz
Chapter Ten: Transnational Telenovela and Modern Masculinities by Paul
Julian Smith
Section III: Regional Emergent Masculinities
Chapter Eleven: Muslim Masculinities in the Spaces of Najat El Hachmi's El
último patriarca by María DiFrancesco
Chapter Twelve: Declining Hypermasculinity in Texts by Catalan-Moroccan
Authors by Miquel Pomar
Chapter Thirteen: Soundtrack of a Generation by Maria Van Liew
Chapter Fourteen: Spanish Fathers, Basque Sons by H. Rosi Song
Chapter Fifteen: Hegemonic Masculinities and Staged Authenticity in Ocho
apellidos vascos by Alfredo Martínez Expósito
Chapter Sixteen: Identifying the Male: Language,