Exile through a gendered lens : women's displacement in recent european history, ... literature, and cinema

This interdisciplinary anthology highlights exiled/alienated women in literature, history, and cinema. Contributors investigate when and how women from diverse backgrounds have been relegated to the margins in order to shed light on the state of alienhood that stems from gendered otherness. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-12 Exile in Letters....Pages 13-38 A Lost Voice Remembered....Pages 39-58 An Argentine in Paris....Pages 59-82 Writing from the Margins, Writing in the Margins....Pages 83-97 Liberating Mythography....Pages 99-117 Souls in Transit....Pages 119-142 Female Transnational Migrations and Diasporas in European “Immigration Cinema”....Pages 143-168 Conclusion....Pages 169-173 Back Matter....Pages 175-184 Documenting the displacement of an eclectic group of women, all considered to be transnationals, the essays address experiences resulting from the Spanish Civil War and ensuing Francoist Regime, WWII, fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, Argentina's Dirty War, and transnational movements in and out of the European Union