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Women Political Prisoners after the Spanish Civil War - Narratives of Resistance and Survival (Hardcover)
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Women Political Prisoners after the Spanish Civil War - Narratives of Resistance and Survival (Hardcover)
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At the end of the Spanish Civil War the Nationalist government
instigated mass repression against anyone suspected of loyalty to
the defeated Republican side. Around 200,000 people were imprisoned
for political crimes in the weeks and months following 1st April
1939, including thousands of women who were charged with offences
ranging from directing the home front to supporting their loved
ones engaged in combat. Many women wrote and published texts about
their experiences, seeking to make their voices heard and to
counteract the dehumanising master narrative of the right-wing
victors that had criminalised their existence. The memoirs of
Communist women, such as Tomasa Cuevas and Juana Dona, have heavily
influenced our understanding of life in prison for women under
franquismo, while texts by non-Communist women have largely been
ignored. This monograph offers a comparative study of the life
writing of female political prisoners in Spain, focusing on six
texts in particular: the two volumes of Carcel de mujeres by Tomasa
Cuevas; Desde la noche y la niebla by Juana Dona; Requiem por la
libertad by Angeles Garcia Madrid; Abajo las dictaduras by Josefa
Garcia Segret; and Aquello sucedio asi by Angeles Malonda. All the
texts share common themes, such as describing the hunger and
repression that all political prisoners suffered. However, the
ideologically-driven narratives of Communist women often foreground
representations of resistance at the expense of exploring the
emotional and intellectual struggle for survival that many women
political prisoners faced in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil
War. This study nuances our understanding of imprisoned women as
individuals and as a collective, analysing how women political
prisoners sought recognition and justice in the face of a
vindictive dictatorship. It also explores the womens response to
the spirit of convivencia during the transition to democracy, which
once again threatened to silence them.
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