Female exiles in twentieth and twenty-first century Europe / edited by Maureen Tobin Stanley and Gesa Zinn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Maureen 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 / Maureen 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.