Female exiles in twentieth and twenty-first century Europe

286 Pages·2007·1.464 MB·English

by  Stanley, Maureen Tobin

FEMALE EXILES IN TWENTIETH
AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
EUROPE
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FEMALE EXILES IN TWENTIETH
AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
EUROPE
Edited By
Maureen Tobin Stanley and Gesa Zinn
FEMALEEXILESINTWENTIETHANDTWENTY-FIRSTCENTURYEUROPE
Copyright © Maureen Tobin Stanley and Gesa Zinn, 2007.
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CONTENTS
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Maureen Tobin Stanley and Gesa Zinn
The Grammar of Contested Memory:
The Representation of Exile in Selected
Female-Authored Texts of Diaspora 13
Mary S. Vásquez
Part I The Political and Personal:
History, War, and Resistance
Dolores Ibárruri, Pasionaria: Voice of the
Anti-Franco Movement (1939–1975) 33
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 51
Maureen Tobin Stanley
Off the Record: Voices of Ordinary Jewish
Survivors of the Shoah 75
Marion Gerlind
Part II Literature and the Arts
Dancing Out of Bounds: Valeska Gert
in Berlin and New York 97
Sydney Jane Norton
viii CONTENTS
A Gypsy in Exile: “Home” and “Nostalgia” in
Creative Works by the Austrian Romni Ceija Stojka 121
Gesa Zinn
Passion and Participation: Motherhood and Exile
in the Works of María Teresa León 137
María del Mar López-Cabrales
Wife, Whore, Witch: The Portrayal of Violence
in the Works of Mercè Rodoreda 155
Victoria L. Ketz
The Four Free Walls of Paris: Nivaria Tejera’s
Exiles in Espero la noche para soñarte, Revolución 181
María Hernández-Ojeda
Part III 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 201
Eva Eppler
Multiculturalism and Citizenship in the
United Kingdom: The Case of Female
Genital Mutilation 223
Anouk Guiné and Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes
Rising above the Bottom of German Society:
Reflections on Interviews with Female Roma
Refugees from Former Yugoslavia 249
Monika Halpaap
List of Contributors 269
Index 275
LIST OF FIGURES
Leaveby Joellyn Rock 26
Bird in the Bush by Carla Stetson 52
“Valeska Gert in Canaille (Whore)” (1925).
Photograph by Suse Byk. Courtesy
Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln 104
Sommer(1992) by Ceija Stojka. Courtesy
of Patricia Meier-Rogan 126
Excerpt(1997) by Jayme Christine 138
Mourning “my evening’s joy” (2005). Part of
a series of works, Widow’s Weeds,
by Janice D. Kmetz 218