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.

....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.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 Questioning Family Dynamics and Family Discourse in Hispanic Literature and FilmChapter 4 Shifting Families and Incest in Chacel and MoixChapter 5 Dysfunction, Discord, and Wedded Bliss: Baroque Families in Don QuixoteChapter 6 Matrofobia y matrilinealidad en Un aire de familia de Silvia ItalianoChapter 7 Dysfunctional Family, Dysfunctional Nation: El cuarto mundo by Diamela EltitChapter 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 familiaChapter 9 Celestino antes del alba: The Family as Agent of the CommunityChapter 10 Family in Levi Calderón's Dos mujeres: Post Traumatic Stress or Lesbian Utopia?Chapter 11 Appendix: Viability of FST for Latin AmericaChapter 12 IndexChapter 13 Contributors

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.

....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.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 Questioning Family Dynamics and Family Discourse in Hispanic Literature and FilmChapter 4 Shifting Families and Incest in Chacel and MoixChapter 5 Dysfunction, Discord, and Wedded Bliss: Baroque Families in Don QuixoteChapter 6 Matrofobia y matrilinealidad en Un aire de familia de Silvia ItalianoChapter 7 Dysfunctional Family, Dysfunctional Nation: El cuarto mundo by Diamela EltitChapter 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 familiaChapter 9 Celestino antes del alba: The Family as Agent of the CommunityChapter 10 Family in Levi Calderón's Dos mujeres: Post Traumatic Stress or Lesbian Utopia?Chapter 11 Appendix: Viability of FST for Latin AmericaChapter 12 IndexChapter 13 Contributors

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.

....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.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 Questioning Family Dynamics and Family Discourse in Hispanic Literature and FilmChapter 4 Shifting Families and Incest in Chacel and MoixChapter 5 Dysfunction, Discord, and Wedded Bliss: Baroque Families in Don QuixoteChapter 6 Matrofobia y matrilinealidad en Un aire de familia de Silvia ItalianoChapter 7 Dysfunctional Family, Dysfunctional Nation: El cuarto mundo by Diamela EltitChapter 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 familiaChapter 9 Celestino antes del alba: The Family as Agent of the CommunityChapter 10 Family in Levi Calderón's Dos mujeres: Post Traumatic Stress or Lesbian Utopia?Chapter 11 Appendix: Viability of FST for Latin AmericaChapter 12 IndexChapter 13 Contributors