Claire Williams is Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter’s College.Maria-José Blanco teaches twentieth-century Spanish literature at King’s College London.

• List of Figures and Tables - Preface - Acknowledgments - Introduction - Speaking Up and Speaking Out: The Expanding Field of Women’s Life-Writing in the Luso-Hispanic World, Maria-José Blanco and Claire Williams - 1. Life-Writing in the Hispanic World, Maria-José Blanco - 2. Life-Writing in the Lusophone World, Claire Williams - PART I: Writers and Artists at Work - 3. Clavicle, an Excerpt, Marta Sanz - 4. ‘Holy Land’, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida - 5. ‘What is an Autora?’ and ‘Being Latin@’, Two Crónicas from Viajar Sola, Liliana Chávez Díaz - 6. How to Deal with Being Brazilian – Some Brief Thoughts on Sense of Place, Representation and the Stories I Can Tell, Carol Bensimon - 7. On Transitions and Belonging: Multiple Narratives of Contemporary Brazilian Art Diasporas, Cibelle, Pauline Batista, Rubiane Maia, Sylvia Morgado, Tete de Alencar, Márcia Thompson - PART II: Pushing the (Generic) Boundaries - 8. From the Love Boat to Noah’s Ark: The Unpublished Log-Book of Maria Ondina Braga, Isabel Cristina Mateus - 9. Ilse Losa’s ‘Chronic’ Border and Boundary Crossing, Rosa Churcher Clarke - 10. And the Writer Became a Grandmother: Josefina Aldecoa and Rosa Regàs, Maria-José Blanco - 11. Brazilian History Through Women’s Eyes: Ana Arruda Callado’s Feminist Biographies, Claire Williams - 12. Painful maternity: Illness and Mother-Daughter Relationships in Sangre en el ojo by Lina Meruane and Madre mía by Florencia del Campo, Beatriz Velayos Amo - 13. Post-Traumatic Transitions: Writing Women’s Lives in Dulce Chacón’s La voz dormida, Hannie Lawlor - 14. From Puberty and Democracy to Menopause and Recession: Representations of Female Identity in the Works of Marta Sanz, Marta Simó-Comas - 15. Narrating Crossings: Mother / Daughter, Morocco / Spain, Catherine Bourland Ross - PART III: ‘Art Spaces and Border Crossings’ - 16. ‘Eu sou porque somos’: Women’s Resistance and Collaboration in Latin American Cultural Practices, María B. Batlle and Georgina Robinson - 17. The Transition(s) of Poetry into Arts, Languages and Gentes in Weiyamî: Mulheres que Fazem Sol, Anélia Montechiari Pietrani - 18. In the House of Celestina: Paula Rego and the Ageing Female​​ Body, Maria Luísa Coelho - 19. ‘Todos ellos están equivocados’: Challenging Borders between Disciplines: Humour, Science and Anthropology in Remedios Varo’s De Homo Rodans, Nadia Albaladejo García - 20. A Curvy Revolution: Celebrating the Female Body in #Curvy by Covadonga D’lom and Flavita Banana, Diana Aramburu - Notes on the Contributors - Index

Claire Williams is Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter’s College.Maria-José Blanco teaches twentieth-century Spanish literature at King’s College London.

• List of Figures and Tables - Preface - Acknowledgments - Introduction - Speaking Up and Speaking Out: The Expanding Field of Women’s Life-Writing in the Luso-Hispanic World, Maria-José Blanco and Claire Williams - 1. Life-Writing in the Hispanic World, Maria-José Blanco - 2. Life-Writing in the Lusophone World, Claire Williams - PART I: Writers and Artists at Work - 3. Clavicle, an Excerpt, Marta Sanz - 4. ‘Holy Land’, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida - 5. ‘What is an Autora?’ and ‘Being Latin@’, Two Crónicas from Viajar Sola, Liliana Chávez Díaz - 6. How to Deal with Being Brazilian – Some Brief Thoughts on Sense of Place, Representation and the Stories I Can Tell, Carol Bensimon - 7. On Transitions and Belonging: Multiple Narratives of Contemporary Brazilian Art Diasporas, Cibelle, Pauline Batista, Rubiane Maia, Sylvia Morgado, Tete de Alencar, Márcia Thompson - PART II: Pushing the (Generic) Boundaries - 8. From the Love Boat to Noah’s Ark: The Unpublished Log-Book of Maria Ondina Braga, Isabel Cristina Mateus - 9. Ilse Losa’s ‘Chronic’ Border and Boundary Crossing, Rosa Churcher Clarke - 10. And the Writer Became a Grandmother: Josefina Aldecoa and Rosa Regàs, Maria-José Blanco - 11. Brazilian History Through Women’s Eyes: Ana Arruda Callado’s Feminist Biographies, Claire Williams - 12. Painful maternity: Illness and Mother-Daughter Relationships in Sangre en el ojo by Lina Meruane and Madre mía by Florencia del Campo, Beatriz Velayos Amo - 13. Post-Traumatic Transitions: Writing Women’s Lives in Dulce Chacón’s La voz dormida, Hannie Lawlor - 14. From Puberty and Democracy to Menopause and Recession: Representations of Female Identity in the Works of Marta Sanz, Marta Simó-Comas - 15. Narrating Crossings: Mother / Daughter, Morocco / Spain, Catherine Bourland Ross - PART III: ‘Art Spaces and Border Crossings’ - 16. ‘Eu sou porque somos’: Women’s Resistance and Collaboration in Latin American Cultural Practices, María B. Batlle and Georgina Robinson - 17. The Transition(s) of Poetry into Arts, Languages and Gentes in Weiyamî: Mulheres que Fazem Sol, Anélia Montechiari Pietrani - 18. In the House of Celestina: Paula Rego and the Ageing Female​​ Body, Maria Luísa Coelho - 19. ‘Todos ellos están equivocados’: Challenging Borders between Disciplines: Humour, Science and Anthropology in Remedios Varo’s De Homo Rodans, Nadia Albaladejo García - 20. A Curvy Revolution: Celebrating the Female Body in #Curvy by Covadonga D’lom and Flavita Banana, Diana Aramburu - Notes on the Contributors - Index

Claire Williams is Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter’s College.Maria-José Blanco teaches twentieth-century Spanish literature at King’s College London.

• List of Figures and Tables - Preface - Acknowledgments - Introduction - Speaking Up and Speaking Out: The Expanding Field of Women’s Life-Writing in the Luso-Hispanic World, Maria-José Blanco and Claire Williams - 1. Life-Writing in the Hispanic World, Maria-José Blanco - 2. Life-Writing in the Lusophone World, Claire Williams - PART I: Writers and Artists at Work - 3. Clavicle, an Excerpt, Marta Sanz - 4. ‘Holy Land’, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida - 5. ‘What is an Autora?’ and ‘Being Latin@’, Two Crónicas from Viajar Sola, Liliana Chávez Díaz - 6. How to Deal with Being Brazilian – Some Brief Thoughts on Sense of Place, Representation and the Stories I Can Tell, Carol Bensimon - 7. On Transitions and Belonging: Multiple Narratives of Contemporary Brazilian Art Diasporas, Cibelle, Pauline Batista, Rubiane Maia, Sylvia Morgado, Tete de Alencar, Márcia Thompson - PART II: Pushing the (Generic) Boundaries - 8. From the Love Boat to Noah’s Ark: The Unpublished Log-Book of Maria Ondina Braga, Isabel Cristina Mateus - 9. Ilse Losa’s ‘Chronic’ Border and Boundary Crossing, Rosa Churcher Clarke - 10. And the Writer Became a Grandmother: Josefina Aldecoa and Rosa Regàs, Maria-José Blanco - 11. Brazilian History Through Women’s Eyes: Ana Arruda Callado’s Feminist Biographies, Claire Williams - 12. Painful maternity: Illness and Mother-Daughter Relationships in Sangre en el ojo by Lina Meruane and Madre mía by Florencia del Campo, Beatriz Velayos Amo - 13. Post-Traumatic Transitions: Writing Women’s Lives in Dulce Chacón’s La voz dormida, Hannie Lawlor - 14. From Puberty and Democracy to Menopause and Recession: Representations of Female Identity in the Works of Marta Sanz, Marta Simó-Comas - 15. Narrating Crossings: Mother / Daughter, Morocco / Spain, Catherine Bourland Ross - PART III: ‘Art Spaces and Border Crossings’ - 16. ‘Eu sou porque somos’: Women’s Resistance and Collaboration in Latin American Cultural Practices, María B. Batlle and Georgina Robinson - 17. The Transition(s) of Poetry into Arts, Languages and Gentes in Weiyamî: Mulheres que Fazem Sol, Anélia Montechiari Pietrani - 18. In the House of Celestina: Paula Rego and the Ageing Female​​ Body, Maria Luísa Coelho - 19. ‘Todos ellos están equivocados’: Challenging Borders between Disciplines: Humour, Science and Anthropology in Remedios Varo’s De Homo Rodans, Nadia Albaladejo García - 20. A Curvy Revolution: Celebrating the Female Body in #Curvy by Covadonga D’lom and Flavita Banana, Diana Aramburu - Notes on the Contributors - Index