FEMALE EXILES IN TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY EUROPE; ED. BY MAUREEN TOBIN STANLEY

A Number Of Historical Events Of The Twentieth Century Gave Rise To Migration, Immigration, And Exile To And Within The European Continent. This Collection Represents An Effort To Raise Consciousness About The Marginalization Of Exiled Women--artists, Writers, Political Figures, As Well As Members Of Ethnic And Religious Minorities. Introduction / Marueen Tobin Stanley And Gesa Zinn -- The Grammar Of Contested Memory: The Representation Of Exile In Selected Female-authored Texts Of Diaspora / Mary S. Vásquez -- Pt. 1. The Political And Personal: History, War, And Resistance. Dolores Ibárruri, Pasionaria: Voice Of The Anti-franco Movement (1939-1975) / Mary Ann Dellinger -- Female Voices Of Resistance In Neus Català's De La Resistencia Y La Deportación: The Triumph Of Life, Dignity, And Solidarity During The Holocaust / Marueen Tobin Stanley -- Off The Record: Voices Of Ordinary Jewish Survivors Of The Shoah / Marion Gerlind -- Pt. 2. Literature And The Arts. Dancing Out Of Bounds: Valeska Gert In Berlin And New York / Sydney Jane Norton -- A Gypsy In Exile: Home And Nostalgia In Creative Works By The Austrian Romni Ceija Stojka / Gesa Zinn -- Passion And Participation: Motherhood And Exile In The Works Of María Teresa León / María Del Mar López-cabrales -- Wife, Whore, Witch: The Portrayal Of Violence In The Works Of Mercè Rodoreda / Victoria L. Ketz -- The Four Free Walls Of Paris: Nivaria Tejera's Exiles In Espero La Noche Para Soñarte, Revolución / María Hernández-ojeda -- Pt. 3. Immigration, Integration, And Community In Contemporary Europe: Culture As Articulated In Language, On The Body, And Within Space. How To Eat Würstel: Two Generations Of Female Shoah Exiles In London / Eva Eppler -- Multiculturalism And Citizenship In The United Kingdom: The Case Of Female Genital Mutilation / Anouk Guiné And Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes -- Rising Above The Bottom Of German Society: Reflections On Interviews With Female Roma Refugees From Former Yugoslavia / Monika Halpaap. Edited By Marueen Tobin Stanley And Gesa Zinn. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Figures......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 The Grammar of Contested Memory: The Representation of Exile in Selected Female-Authored Texts of Diaspora......Page 26 Part I: The Political and Personal: History, War, and Resistance......Page 44 Dolores Ibárruri, Pasionaria: Voice of the Anti–Franco Movement (1939–1975)......Page 46 Female Voices of Resistance in Neus Català’s De la resistencia y la deportación: The Triumph of Life, Dignity, and Solidarity during the Holocaust......Page 64 Off the Record: Voices of Ordinary Jewish Survivors of the Shoah......Page 88 Part II: Literature and the Arts......Page 108 Dancing Out of Bounds: Valeska Gert in Berlin and New York......Page 110 A Gypsy in Exile: “Home” and “Nostalgia” in Creative Works by the Austrian Romni Ceija Stojka......Page 134 Passion and Participation: Motherhood and Exile in the Works of María Teresa León......Page 150 Wife, Whore, Witch: The Portrayal of Violence in the Works of Mercè Rodoreda......Page 168 The Four Free Walls of Paris: Nivaria Tejera’s Exiles in Espero la noche para soñarte, Revolución......Page 194 Part III: Immigration, Integration, and Community in Contemporary Europe: Culture as Articulated in Language, On the Body, and within Space......Page 212 How to Eat Würstel: Two Generations of Female Shoah Exiles in London......Page 214 Multiculturalism and Citizenship in the United Kingdom: The Case of Female Genital Mutilation......Page 236 Rising above the Bottom of German Society: Reflections on Interviews with Female Roma Refugees from Former Yugoslavia......Page 262 List of Contributors......Page 282 B......Page 288 C......Page 289 F......Page 290 H......Page 291 I......Page 292 M......Page 293 P......Page 294 S......Page 295 T......Page 296 Z......Page 297 A number of historical events of the twentieth century gave rise to migration, immigration, and exile to and within the European continent. This collection represents an effort to raise consciousness about the marginalization of exiled women - artists, writers, political figures, as well as members of ethnic and religious minorities.--Publisher description Annotation A number of historical events of the twentieth century gave rise to migration, immigration, and exile to and within the European continent. This collection represents an effort to raise consciousness about the marginalization of exiled women--artists, writers, political figures, as well as members of ethnic and religious minorities