Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces: Literary and Visual Narratives of the New Millennium

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This edited collection examines the synergistic relationship between gender and urban space in post-millennium Spain. Despite the social progress Spain has made extending equal rights to all citizens, particularly in the wake of the Franco regime and radically liberating Transición, the fact remains that not all subjects—particularly, women, immigrants, and queers—possess equal autonomy. The book exposes visible shifts in power dynamics within the nation’s largest urban capitals—Madrid and Barcelona—and takes a hard look at more peripheral bedroom communities as all of these spaces reflect the discontent of a post-nationalistic, economically unstable Spain. As the contributors problematize notions of public and private space and disrupt gender binaries related with these, they aspire to engender discussion around civic status, the administration of space and the place of all citizens in a global world. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Introduction (Maria C. DiFrancesco, Debra J. Ochoa)....Pages 1-28 Front Matter ....Pages 29-29 Bodies, Spaces, and Transitions in Alberto Rodríguez’s Grupo 7 (2012) and La isla mínima (2014) (Vinodh Venkatesh)....Pages 31-52 The Spaces of Patriarchy in Rafael Chirbes’s En la orilla (2013) (Olga Bezhanova)....Pages 53-73 Marking Territory: Violence and Hypermasculinity in Ramon Térmens and Carles Torras’s Joves (2004) (Antoni Maestre-Brotons)....Pages 75-102 Home and Sexuality: Queering the Notions of Parenting and Space in Cachorro (2004) (Adrián Gras-Velázquez)....Pages 103-130 Front Matter ....Pages 131-131 Broken Sexualities: Claiming the Right to the City in Maite Carranza’s El fruto del baobab (2013) (Ana Corbalán)....Pages 133-154 On the Affective Politics of Cosmopolitanism: African Migration, Lavapiés, and the Domestic Realm in Lucía Etxebarría’s Cosmofobia (2007) (N. Michelle Murray)....Pages 155-183 Defining Mother’s Place in Barcelona: Women in Biutiful (2010) (Catherine B. Ross)....Pages 185-208 Front Matter ....Pages 209-209 Re-Creating Space in Cristina Cerezales Laforet’s El pozo del cielo (2013) (Sandra J. Schumm)....Pages 211-239 From Place to Space: Creating a Utopia in Juan José Millás’s Dos mujeres en Praga (2002) (Victoria Ketz)....Pages 241-267 Precarious Life in the High Rise: Neoliberal Urban Interiors in Rec (2007) and Mientras duermes (2011) (Antonio Cordoba)....Pages 269-288 Front Matter ....Pages 289-289 Searching in the City of Lost Memories: La mujer sin piano (2009) and Post-11-M Trauma (Alberto Villamandos)....Pages 291-315 The Female Façade and the Façade of the Female in the Mini-Series El tiempo entre costuras (2013) (Kyra A. Kietrys)....Pages 317-345 The City Unmapped: A Feminist Imagination of Urban Spaces in Javier Pérez Andújar’s Paseos con mi madre (2011) (Lindsey Reuben Muñoz)....Pages 347-367 Back Matter ....Pages 369-402