1st Edition

Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War

By Maryellen Bieder, Roberta Johnson Copyright 2017
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) pitted conservative forces including the army, the Church, the Falange (fascist party), landowners, and industrial capitalists against the Republic, installed in 1931 and supported by intellectuals, the petite bourgeoisie, many campesinos (farm laborers), and the urban proletariat. Provoking heated passions on both sides, the Civil War soon became an... Read more

CONTENTS





INTRODUCTION: Spanish Women Writers and Spain’s Civil War



ROBERTA JOHNSON AND MARYELLEN BIEDER





María Zambrano’s Enduring Drama: Remembering the Spanish Civil War



SHIRLEY MANGINI





Living the War, Writing the War: Poetic Figuration in Mercè’s La plaça



del Diamant



MARYELLEN BIEDER





Spaces of Enclosure in Liberata Masoliver’s Barcelona en llamas



LISA NALBONE





Hybrid Discourses and Double Voices: Re-evaluating the Spanish Civil War in Mercedes Salisachs’s Novels



CHRISTINE ARKINSTALL





The Last Battle: Gloria Fuertes and the Politics of Emotion in Her Late Civil War Poems



REYES VILA-BELDA





The Theater of Maria Aurèlia Capmany and the Reverberations of Civil War (History, Censorship, Silence)



SHARON G. FELDMAN





Carmen Laforet's Inspiration for Nada (1945)



ISRAEL ROLÓN-BARADA





Carmen Martín Gaite's Concept of Ruins



ROBERTA JOHNSON





Novels as History Lessons in Ana María Matute’s Primera memoria (1960) and Demonios familiares (2014): From Betrayal to Solidarity



SILVIA BERMÚDEZ





The Phantasm of Civil War in Josefina Aldecoa’s Novelistic Trilogy



DAVID K. HERZBERGER





Impossible Neutrality: Civil War and Melodrama in Marina Mayoral’s Novels



ROSALÍA CORNEJO PARRIEGO





Montserrat Roig and the Civil War: Questions of Genre, Gender, and Authorial Presence



CATHERINE G. BELLVER





Family Documents, Analogy, and Reconciliation in the Works of Carme Riera



KATHRYN EVERLY





Dead Woman Walking: "Historical Memory," Trauma, and Adaptation in Dulce Chacón’s La voz dormida



MICHAEL UGUARTE





CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES

Biography

Maryellen Bieder is Professor Emerita in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University.



Roberta Johnson is Profeesor Emerita at the University of Kansas and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Los Angeles.