Affect and Belonging in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film

Chapter 1 Introduction: Spanish Crossroads—Affect and Belonging in the Democratic Era

Chapter 2 No Place Like Home: Gabi Martínez’s Ático ( Top - Floor Apartment ) and Javier Calvo’s “Una Belleza Rusa” ( A Russian Beauty )

Chapter 3 History and Trauma at the Crossroads: Guillermo del Toro’s El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth) and Isabel Coixet’s The Secret Life of Words

Chapter 4 Synthetic Skins: Mercedes Cebrián’s La nueva taxidermia ( The New Taxidermy ) and Pedro Almodóvar’s La piel que habito ( The Skin I Live in )

Chapter 5 Unraveling Cultures: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful and Najat El Hachmi’s L’ultim patriarca ( The Last Patriarch )