The Editor: Silvia Caporale-Bizzini is Associate Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory, Director of the Women’s Studies Centre at Alicante University (Spain). She has co-edited/edited various books and has published articles and essays on cultural theory and contemporary literature in English. She is currently working on the relationship between motherhood, identity and representation in contemporary British women writers.

• Contents: Sara Velasco-Arias: Unconscious Representations of Motherhood(s). Traditions and Contradictions – Teresa M. Dobryzkowski: Mothering Beyond the Usual Boundaries: Living at Ground Zero with Chronic Illness Superimposed with Catastrophic Life Events – Mónica Moreno-Seco/Alicia Mira-Abad: Motherhood(s) and Memoirs Written by Women in the Spanish Exile – Helena Establier: The Voice(s) of the Mother in Contemporary Spanish Narrative Written by Women: Esther Tusquets’s El mismo mar de todos los veranos and Other Motherhoods – Silvia Caporale-Bizzini: Breaking the Boundaries Between Life and Fiction: The Mother-Daughter Tale(s) in Jenny Diski’s Like Mother – Josefina Bueno-Alonso: Representations of Motherhood: Between Absence and Rebelliousness – Amaya Fernández-Menicucci: The Face and the Thread: Motherhood, Daughterhood and Identity in Maya Angelou’s Autobiography.