The Dynamics of Masculinity in Contemporary Spanish Culture

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

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.

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,