Journal | Rassegna iberistica
Journal issue | 41 | 110 | 2018
Research Article | Gender Roles, Family Models and Community-Building Processes in Poblenou

Gender Roles, Family Models and Community-Building Processes in Poblenou

This article explores connections between construction of gender roles, family models and community-building processes in soap opera narratives. The underlying research hypothesis maintains that construction of gender roles and family models in soap operas influences values around which a sense of community is constructed. Using textual analysis as methodology and an intercultural approach, this study compares and contrasts British and American soap operas. This approach allows to set out two contrasting models and investigate whether and to what extent Catalan soap operas adhere to one of them by proposing an original analysis of selected characters and storylines from a corpus of Catalan drama serials. This article also queries in which ways Catalonia’s situation as a stateless nation influences a sense of community construction in Catalan soap operas.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: May 24, 2017 | Accepted: June 17, 2018 | Published: Dec. 11, 2018 | Language: en

Keywords Gender roles Catalonia Collective memory Soap operas Communities Family models

Copyright © 2018 Silvia Grassi. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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