Female Exiles in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Europe

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Grammar of Contested Memory: The Representation of Exile in Selected Female-Authored Texts of Diaspora

Chapter 3 Dolores Ibárruri, Pasionaria : Voice of the Anti-Franco Movement (1939–1975)

Chapter 4 Female Voices of Resistance in Neus Català’s de la Resistencia y la Deportación : The Triumph of Life, Dignity, and Solidarity during the Holocaust

Chapter 5 Off the Record: Voices of Ordinary Jewish Survivors of the Shoah

Chapter 6 Dancing Out of Bounds: Valeska Gert in Berlin and New York

Chapter 7 A Gypsy in Exile: “Home” and “Nostalgia” in Creative Works by the Austrian Romni Ceija Stojka

Chapter 8 Passion and Participation: Motherhood and Exile in the Works of María Teresa León

Chapter 9 Wife, Whore, Witch: The Portrayal of Violence in the Works of Mercè Rodoreda

Chapter 10 The Four Free Walls of Paris: Nivaria Tejera’s Exiles in Espero la Noche Para Soñarte, Revolución

Chapter 11 How to Eat Würstel : Two Generations of Female Shoah Exiles in London

Chapter 12 Multiculturalism and Citizenship in the United Kingdom: The Case of Female Genital Mutilation

Chapter 13 Rising above the Bottom of German Society: Reflections on Interviews with Female Roma Refugees from Former Yugoslavia