Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War

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.

• CONTENTSINTRODUCTION: Spanish Women Writers and Spain’s Civil WarROBERTA JOHNSON AND MARYELLEN BIEDERMaría Zambrano’s Enduring Drama: Remembering the Spanish Civil War SHIRLEY MANGINILiving the War, Writing the War: Poetic Figuration in Mercè’s La plaçadel DiamantMARYELLEN BIEDERSpaces of Enclosure in Liberata Masoliver’s Barcelona en llamasLISA NALBONEHybrid Discourses and Double Voices: Re-evaluating the Spanish Civil War in Mercedes Salisachs’s NovelsCHRISTINE ARKINSTALLThe Last Battle: Gloria Fuertes and the Politics of Emotion in Her Late Civil War PoemsREYES VILA-BELDAThe 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 JOHNSONNovels as History Lessons in Ana María Matute’s Primera memoria (1960) and Demonios familiares (2014): From Betrayal to SolidaritySILVIA BERMÚDEZThe Phantasm of Civil War in Josefina Aldecoa’s Novelistic TrilogyDAVID K. HERZBERGERImpossible Neutrality: Civil War and Melodrama in Marina Mayoral’s NovelsROSALÍA CORNEJO PARRIEGOMontserrat Roig and the Civil War: Questions of Genre, Gender, and Authorial PresenceCATHERINE G. BELLVER Family Documents, Analogy, and Reconciliation in the Works of Carme RieraKATHRYN EVERLYDead Woman Walking: "Historical Memory," Trauma, and Adaptation in Dulce Chacón’s La voz dormidaMICHAEL UGUARTECONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES