Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Presentation

The article analyzes three works belonging to the testimonial narrative about the French concentration camps written by republican women exiled in Mexico: Silvia Mistral, Cristina Martín and Mada Carreño. These authors demonstrate the voice of surviving women is essential to fully and profoundly understand the process of discipline and territorial dislocation that the Spanish republican community suffered after the Civil War ended. Mexico became a fertile location for them, even despite the specific conditions of their gender, to carry out their own narrative projects that resulted in the reconstruction of identities with transnational and transatlantic characteristics. 

This paper examines Eva Canel and María Luisa Castellanos’s written work and Americanist involvement, by which both women held some opposing political and social views. This proposal develops through the basics of transatlantic studies and attempts to relocate both authors to a Spanish and Latin American network of female intelectuals in the turn of the century. The analysis is conducted through three main notions: colonialism and Asturian regionalism, Spanish female migration and the promotion and dissemination of Spanish and Latin American female writers and journalists.

In this work, we will examine some of the Chronicles published in the Álbum Ibero-Americano by the Spanish writer Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (Alcañiz, 1850 - Buenos Aires, 1919). This is an approach to her role of cultural promoter. Gimeno, who stablished in Argentina in 1910 (centennial year of May Revolution), dedicated most of her life to forging links between women from across America and was a privileged protagonist of this exceptional historical moment in which transatlantic ties between Spain and Argentina has been at the center of both countries politics.  

In the Galician literary system of the last two decades, the narrative of female authorship has proliferated. At the same time, there has been a significant diversification of this sub-genre, which is reflected in the progressive incorporation of women as protagonists and in the feminine perspective in the stories. Sol de Inverno (2009), the novel by Rosa Aneiros analysed in this study, constitutes a paradigmatic example of all this. The author addresses the topic of Galician emigration and exile in Cuba, by focusing on the experiences of women, with the aim of recovering their memory and reclaiming them.

Since the biography of Spanish painter Maruja Mallo's has been addressed in enough specific works, this paper will pay more attention to the works she carried out between Spain and Argentina along 1936 and 1939, specially Sorpresa del trigo (1936) and Canto de las espigas (1939), which will take part in the series La religión del trabajo, painted entirety in Argentina with drawings and preliminary works made in her homeland, Galicia, before going into exile a few months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. With this pictorial and conceptual approach to her works the aim is to dig deeper into the motives and symbols that were the source of this paintings and the reception they had in her host country.

Finisterre (2005) and Solo queda saltar (2018), by María Rosa Lojo, narrate stories of women who face a double cultural belonging, marked by Spain and Latin America. In this work, we will observe the symbolic mechanisms that account for the existence of this fluctuating identity in each of the novels mentioned, and we will investigate the possibility of a conciliatory synthesis, which we will call “the identity swing”.