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

About the Author

Sara E. Cooper is Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at California State University, Chico. Dr. Cooper holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews

....Cooper's singular contribution is her application of psychological theory to literary analysis, freeing it from the tendency to norm concepts pertaining to family and inviting rereadings of literary and filmic family plots. The works studied range from Don Quixote to Sara Levi Calderón's Dos mujeres and to films. Summing Up: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
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