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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783664003321

Autore

Linhard Tabea Alexa <1972->

Titolo

Fearless women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War [[electronic resource] /] / Tabea Alexa Linhard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, Mo., : University of Missouri Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8262-6498-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

946.081

Soggetti

Women revolutionaries - Mexico

Women revolutionaries - Spain

Mexico History Revolution, 1923-1924 Women

Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939 Women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-270) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The haunting pain of a phantom limb -- Between losing and killing fear -- Discursive battlefields -- Death stories -- Adelita's death -- The "Trece Rosas" and other death stories -- Writing violence -- Dancing with Pancho Villa's head : Nellie Campobello's Cartucho -- In the shadows : María Teresa León's short stories -- A remainder and a reminder -- To remember is a ghostly verb -- Who will talk about us when we are dead?

Sommario/riassunto

"Study of the role women played in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. Examines female figures such as the soldaderas of the Mexican Revolution and the milicianas of the Spanish Civil War and the intersection of gender, revolution, and culture in both the Mexican and the Spanish contexts"--Provided by publisher.