Research Catalog

Title

The Ties that bind : questioning family dynamics and family discourse in Hispanic literature / edited, with an introduction and notes by Sara E. Cooper.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2004

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Details

Additional Authors

Cooper, Sara E.

Description

viii, [1], 201 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

In "The Ties That Bind" editor and author Sara E. Cooper eschews the 'usual suspect' lineup of Freud, Marx, Saussure, Levi-Strauss, etc. for a different flavor of psychologically oriented literary criticism. Introduced to Family Systems Therapy (FST) in grad school, Ms. Cooper has extended the earlier critical work in literatures in English and family systems therapy to Hispanic fiction. This collection of critical essays explores the family system in Spanish and Latin American culture as reflected in literature, but FST is not the only critical approach employed. The purpose of the book is to collect works by interesting critics beneath the umbrella of a Family Systems approach, where the literary elements of the text, including but not limited to its structure, tone, narrative voice, use of metaphor and other figurative language, use of imagery, lexicon, plot, and temporal or spatial innovation can be viewed through a new, and hopefully thought-provoking lens. 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

Subject

• Chacel, Rosa, 1898-1994
• Moix, Ana María, 1947-2014
• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616
• Italiano, Silvia, 1950-
• Eltit, Diamela, 1949-
• Rivera, Tomás, 1935-1984
• Nava, Gregory
• Arenas, Reinaldo, 1943-1990
• Calderón, Sara Levi, 1942-
• Family psychotherapy
• Hispanic American families in literature
• Hispanic American families in motion pictures
• Hispanic Americans in mass media

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Questioning family dynamics and family discourse in Hispanic literature and film / Sara E. Cooper -- Shifting families and incest in Chacel and Moix / Ellen Mayock -- Dysfunction, discord, and wedded bliss: baroque families in Don Quixote / Donald D. Miller -- Matrofobia y matrilinealidad en 'Un aire de familia' de Silvia Italiano / Miryam Criado -- Dysfunctional family, dysfunctional nation: 'El cuarto mundo' by Diamela Eltit / Lea Ramsdell -- 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' / María Claudia André -- 'Celestino antes del alba': the family as agent of the community / Dinora Cardoso -- Family in Levi Calderón's 'Dos mujeres': post traumatic stress or lesbian utopia? / Sara E. Cooper -- Appendix: Viability of FST for Latin America.

ISBN

0761826491

OCLC

• 55492191
• SCSB-10627796

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library