Women remember. Gender and memory of the Spanish republican exile in France (1939-1978)

Abstract

This paper aims to explore, through the memory of four refugee women in France after the Spanish Civil War, what and how women remember their experience of exile. We will try to demonstrate that the feminine narratives, especially those of women who did not have a political and / or cultural projection, can destabilize the hegemonic memory of struggle, militancy and masculine heroism that has traditionally characterized this episode of our history. We think that through their narrations, women constructed diverse indentities around the experience of exile, that gender crossed their experiences and it has had a correlation in the practices of memory by enhancing themes and approaches that allow us to observe another way of understanding and live the exile, without losing sight of their plurality.