Jiménez Placer, Susana MaríaGómez López, Esther2020-02-262020-02-262020http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20810This PhD dissertation analyzes a selected corpus from the American writer Joyce Carol Orates (born in 1938 in Lockport, New York): A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967), Expensive People (1968), them (Fiction1969), Wonderland (1971), We Were the Mulvaneys (1996), Little Bird of Heaven (2009) and Carthage (2014) with the objective of demonstrating that the rigid role-enactment that the traditional patriarchal nuclear family exhibits has harmful consequences for the characters, manifested in distortion and confusion of roles, conflicts and violence. In order to prove this hypothesis, a multi-layered theoretical approach has been employed by resorting to gender studies, kinships studies, trauma studies and studies on violence, among others.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Joyce Carol OatesFictionFamily RelationshipsMaterias::Investigación::62 Ciencias de las artes y las letras::6202 Teoría, análisis y crítica literarias::620201 Crítica de textosMaterias::Investigación::62 Ciencias de las artes y las letras::6202 Teoría, análisis y crítica literarias::620202 Análisis literariodoctoral thesisopen access