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Sarah Leggott is professor of Spanish in the School of Languages and Cultures at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Introduction
Chapter One:
Narrating the Legacy of War and Dictatorship in Contemporary Spain: Gender, Trauma, and the Historical Memory Debates
Chapter Two: Dulce Chacón (1954–2003)
Constructing a Gendered Postmemory: Repression, Resistance, and Transgenerational Transmission in La voz dormida (2002)
Chapter Three: Rosa Regàs (1933–)
Expiating the Sins of the Mother: Childhood Memories of Retribution and Loss in Luna lunera (1999)
Chapter Four: Josefina Aldecoa (1926–2011)
Challenging Cultural Taboos of Age and Gender: The Voice of the Elderly Mother and Returned Exile in La fuerza del destino (1997)
Chapter Five: Carme Riera (1948–)
Reconstructing the Maternal Story: The Quest for Historical “Truth” and Self-Understanding in La mitad del alma (2005)
Chapter Six: Almudena Grandes (1960–)
Inscribing the Transgenerational Legacy of Exile: A Son’s Inherited Guilt and a Granddaughter’s Quest for Reparation in El corazón helado (2007)
Conclusion
Bibliography