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This study examines Violeta Serrano's narrative, which depicts her experiences as a young migrant during Spain's 2008 economic crisis, through the lens of Maria Zambrano's concept of "crisis". However, this proposition is not straightforward. Disparities and a temporal gap separate the crises faced by Serrano and Zambrano, as well as the migration flows they are associated with. This raises the question: can Zambrano's concepts serve as a unifying framework for understanding autobiographical literature authored by different types of migrants, transcending traditional barriers between migration movements?" [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study elucidates the process of Maria Casarès' identity construction in her correspondence with Albert Camus. I focus on how space and identity are entangled in their letters by zooming in on the correspondents' construction of a spatial identity through their epistolary dialogue. In their epistolary relationship, Casarès and Camus exchange depictions, feelings, drawings, and postcards of the places in their host country France—such as Paris, Ermenonville in Oise, Camaret-sur-Mer in Bretagne, Cabris in the Provence—, that define them not so much individually but mostly together, as a couple. The correspondents create in their letters places and metaphors that have significance for both of them and that they can share—through memory of the past, imagination at present, or plans for the future—. The analysis gives insight in how Casarès renegotiated her identity via the epistolary dialogue with Camus on the basis of the characteristics of exile and the search for silence, creativity and truth that they shared. The study illustrates the autobiographical character of the correspondence in its dialogical context: the strong bond between the sender and recipient of the letters plays a fundamental role in stimulating and facilitating possibilities for synergetic identity renegotiations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This monograph focuses on the alliances forged by Spanish women intellectuals - writers, artists, actresses - in exile during Franco's dictatorship (1939-1975). The scholars who participate in this special issue enter into dialogue with the rapidly growing scholarly interest in Spanish women exiles' correspondence via private letters, which was the key medium of communication of the mid twentieth century. [Extracted from the article]

En este estudio proponemos que la cuestión de la identidad de Tomás Segovia trasciende el binomio España-México. Partiendo del primer exilio en zonas de habla francesa del escritor hispanomexicano Tomás Segovia (1927–2011), que el escritor describe como una ‘brecha’ entre España y México, nos preguntamos por las huellas que dejaron los contactos con la cultura francesa en su obra temprana. Para ello, estudiamos una selección de ensayos y una pieza de teatro que se remontan a finales de los 50 y principios de los 60. Concluimos que en aquella época, a Tomás Segovia le preocuparon las cuestiones éticas planteadas por los pensadores del existencialismo francés y que el autor se enfocó particularmente en el principio de ‘fidelidad’. Argumentamos que la relevancia de este estudio centrado en la obra temprana de Segovia no es meramente histórica ya que nos permite revelar que las raíces de la ‘fidelidad’ del autor—concepto que posteriormente se convertiría en una constante en su obra y que ofrece una clave para entender su definición del ‘exilio’—se sitúan precisamente en aquella ‘brecha’ entre España y México. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]