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The Female Façade and the Façade of the Female in the Mini-Series El tiempo entre costuras (2013)

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Abstract

Reading spaces as a metaphor for individual agency and political power, this chapter examines the dialectic tensions inherent in urban spaces as depicted in the 2013 Spanish television miniseries, El tiempo entre costuras, based on María Dueñas’ 2009 novel. Of particular interest are both urban and liminal spaces—spaces that are neither urban nor rural, both interior and exterior, and in which the public and private comingle—complicating our reading of the effects of urbanization on female agency. What emerges from this approach is the analysis of a contemporary Spanish television series through the lens of what Benjamin Fraser identifies as urban cultural studies—(i.e., cultural studies within an urban frame).

Vestirse en Madrid, con una modista que tenía telas propias, era el no va más.

—El cuarto de atrás, Carmen Martín Gaite 1

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  1. Hispanic Studies Department, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, USA

    Kyra A. Kietrys

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  1. Modern Languages & Literatures, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, USA

    Maria C. DiFrancesco

  2. Modern Languages & Literatures, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA

    Debra J. Ochoa

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Kietrys, K.A. (2017). The Female Façade and the Façade of the Female in the Mini-Series El tiempo entre costuras (2013). In: DiFrancesco, M., Ochoa, D. (eds) Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces. Hispanic Urban Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47325-3_13

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