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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.

Spanish fiction --- Motherhood in literature. --- Mothers and daughters in literature. --- Archetypes in literature. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Archetypes in literature --- Archetype (Psychology) in literature