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Exile As National Belonging In María Teresa León’S "Memoria De La Melancolía"., Karla Zepeda Dec 2011

Exile As National Belonging In María Teresa León’S "Memoria De La Melancolía"., Karla Zepeda

Karla P Zepeda

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Exile And Identity In Autobiographies Of Twentieth-Century Spanish Women, Karla Zepeda Dec 2011

Exile And Identity In Autobiographies Of Twentieth-Century Spanish Women, Karla Zepeda

Karla P Zepeda

In Exile and Identity in Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Spanish Women, Karla P. Zepeda studies the experience of exile and its effects on identity in three autobiographies: In Place of Splendor by Constancia de la Mora, Memoria de la melancolía by María Teresa León, and Seis años de mi vida by Federica Montseny. These three prominent Spanish women of the Second Republic became exiles at the conclusion of the Spanish Civil War due to the onset of the Francisco Franco regime. The political expatriation caused their relocation into various countries: the United States, France, Argentina, and Italy. The repositioning initiated a …