Table Of ContentMemory, War, and Dictatorship in
Recent Spanish Fiction by Women
Memory, War, and Dictatorship in
Recent Spanish Fiction by Women
Sarah Leggott
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1 NarratingtheLegacyofWarandDictatorshipin
ContemporarySpain:Gender,Trauma,andtheHistorical
MemoryDebates 11
2 DulceChacón(1954–2003):ConstructingaGendered
Postmemory:Repression,Resistance,and
TransgenerationalTransmissioninLavozdormida(2002) 39
3 RosaRegàs(1933–):ExpiatingtheSinsoftheMother:
ChildhoodMemoriesofRetributionandLossinLunalunera
(1999) 61
4 JosefinaAldecoa(1926–2011):ChallengingCulturalTaboos
ofAgeandGender:TheVoiceoftheElderlyMotherand
ReturnedExileinLafuerzadeldestino(1997) 81
5 CarmeRiera(1948–):ReconstructingtheMaternalStory:
TheQuestforHistorical“Truth”andSelf-Understandingin
Lamitaddelalma(2005) 95
6 AlmudenaGrandes(1960–):Inscribingthe
TransgenerationalLegacyofExile:ASon’sInheritedGuilt
andaGranddaughter’sQuestforReparationinElcorazón
helado(2007) 111
Conclusion 129
Bibliography 135
Index 153
AbouttheAuthor 159
v
Acknowledgments
This study was made possible by the support of many friends and col-
leagues and by the strong institutional support that I received from Vic-
toriaUniversityofWellington.
In particular, my thanks go to the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences at Victoria for providing me with various forms of research
funding in support of this project: faculty research grants, conference
leave,writingretreats,andresearchleave,includinganextendedperiod
of study leave in 2013–2014 which allowed me the time and space to
complete the book while living in the wonderful surrounds of rural
Andalucía.
Forsupport,advice,andencouragementovertheyears,specialthanks
areduetoChristineArkinstall,MercedesCamino,DeborahWillis,Brian
Moloughney,SallyHill,AllisonKirkman,andKathrynSutherland.Iam
alsogratefultotheanonymousreviewersatBucknellUniversityPressfor
their constructive and generous comments on drafts of the manuscript,
and to research assistants Julia van Luijk and Jon Preston, who did a
wonderfuljobofeditingthedraftmanuscriptandpreparingitforpubli-
cation.
Asalways,mygreatestdebtofgratitudeistomyfamily:Stuart,Ryan,
Lauren,andLucy.Ithankthemfortheirsenseofadventureinaccompa-
nying me to Spain numerous times and for their love and support
throughouttheproject.
Finally,mythanksgotoProfessorGregClinghamofBucknellUniver-
sity Press and to the production team at Rowman & Littlefield for their
professionalismandexpertise:theyarealwaysapleasuretoworkwith.
Ialsothanktheeditorsofthefollowingpublicationsfortheirpermis-
sion to reprint partial versions of the research in this book. Portions of
chapters2,5,and6werepreviouslypublishedinthefollowingarticles:
“Memory, Postmemory, Trauma: The Spanish Civil War in Recent
NovelsbyWomen.”FULGOR:FlindersUniversityLanguagesGroup
OnlineReview4,no.1(November2009):25–34.
“TheQuestforHistorical‘Truth’andSelf-Understanding:CarmeRie-
ra’s La mitad del alma.” In Telling Tales: The Place of Storytelling in
ContemporarySpain,editedbyAnneWalsh.Newcastle:Cambridge
Scholars,2015.PublishedwiththepermissionofCambridgeSchol-
arsPublishing.
vii
viii Acknowledgments
“Remembering the Spanish Civil War in Fiction: Dulce Chacón’s La
voz dormida and Ángeles Caso’s Un largo silencio.” In The Spanish
CivilWar:ExhumingaBuriedPast,editedbyAnindyaRaychaudhu-
ri,159–70.Cardiff:UniversityofWalesPress,2013.
“Representations of Spain’s Republican Exile in Contemporary Fic-
tion:AlmudenaGrandes’sElcorazónhelado(2007).”InExilioeiden-
tidad en el mundo hispánico: Reflexiones y representaciones, edited by
Beatriz Caballero Rodríguez and Laura López Fernández, 605–25.
UniversityofAlicante:BibliotecaVirtualCervantes,2012.
“Representing Spain’s 20th-Century Trauma in Fiction: Memories of
War and Dictatorship in Contemporary Novels by Women.” In
Trauma,Media,Art:NewPerspectives,editedbyMickBroderickand
Antonio Traverso, 120–31. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
PublishedwiththepermissionofCambridgeScholarsPublishing.
