TY - BOOK ID - 78145631 TI - Mother and myth in Spanish novels : rewriting the maternal archetype PY - 2011 SN - 1283302675 9786613302670 161148359X 9781611483598 9781611483581 9781283302678 6613302678 1611483581 1611485428 PB - Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press/Rowman & Littlefield, DB - UniCat KW - Spanish fiction KW - Motherhood in literature. KW - Mothers and daughters in literature. KW - Archetypes in literature. KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Archetypes in literature KW - Archetype (Psychology) in literature KW - Archetype (Psychology) in literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78145631 AB - Remembering the forgotten mother is a major theme in Myth & Mother in Spanish Novels and reflects the current interest in the recuperation of historic memory in Spain. The novels in this study feature mature protagonists who recall their mothers as a way to define their own identities and to nullify the fictional matricide prevalent in post-war Spanish novels; this twenty-first-century fiction highlights the haunting presence of the mother and begs comparison with myth. ER -