Gender and Memory in the Postmillennial Novels of Almudena Grandes

List of contents

Introduction
Motherhood, Clothing and Class in Los aires difíciles.
Memory, Masculinity and the Changing Spanish Family in El corazón helado.
The Feminised Quest Romance in Inés y la alegría.
Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress and the Gendered Reading Trope in El lector de Julio Verne.
Internal Exile and Resistance in Las tres bodas de Manolita.
Perpetration and the Stigma of Illness in Los pacientes del Dr. García.
Conclusion

About the author

Lorraine Ryan is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Summary

This book aims to illuminate the unique character of Grandes?s major postmillennial novels by examining the heretofore unexamined themes of perpetrator and gender memory, as well as reconceiving her representation of the memory of victimhood.

Product details

• Authors: Lorraine Ryan, Ryan Lorraine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780367655235
• ISBN: 978-0-367-65523-5
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers