Affect and Belonging in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film: Crossroads Visions

1. Introduction: Spanish Crossroads: Affect and Belonging in the Democratic Era 2. No Place Like Home: Gabi Martínez's Ático (Top-floor apartment) and Javier Calvo's "Una belleza rusa" (A Russian beauty) 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 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) 5. Unraveling Cultures: Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful and Najat El Hachmi's L'ultim patriarca (The last patriarch) 6. Unsheltered: Pablo Berger's Blancanieves and Jesús Carrasco's Intemperie (Out in the Open)