While literature inspired by the Spanish Civil War has been the subject of scholarship, women's literary production has not been studied as a body of work in the same way that literature by men has been, and its unique features have not been examined. Addressing this lacuna in literary studies, this volume provides fresh perspectives on well-known women writers whose works take the Spanish Civil War as a theme.

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.

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

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