Introduction; M.T.Stanle y & G.Zinn The Grammar of Contested Memory: The Representation of Exile in Selected Female-Authored Texts of Diaspora; M.S.Vásquez PART I: THE POLITICAL AND THE PERSONAL: HISTORY, WAR, AND RESISTANCE Dolores Ibárruri, Pasionaria: Voice of the Anti-Franco Movement (1939-1975); M.A.Dellinger Female Voices of Resistance in Neus Català's De la resistencia y la deportación: The Triumph of Life, Dignity and Solidarity during the Holocaust; M.T.Stanley Off the Record: Voices of Ordinary Jewish Survivors of the Shoah; M.Gerlind PART II: LITERATURE AND THE ARTS Dancing Out of Bounds: Valeska Gert in Berlin and New York; S.J.Norton A Gypsy in Exile: 'Home' and 'Nostalgia' in Creative Works by the Austrian Roma Ceija Stojka; G.Zinn Passion and Participation: Motherhood and Exile in the Works of María Teresa León; María del Mar López-Cabrales Wife, Whore, Witch: The Portrayal of Violence in the Works of Mercè Rodoreda ; V.Ketz The Four Free Walls of Paris: NivariaTejera'sExiles in Espero la noche para soñarte, Revolución; M.Hernández Ojeda PART III: IMMIGRATION, INTEGRATION AND COMMUNITY: CULTURE AS ARTICULATED IN LANGUAGE, ON THE BODY, AND WITHIN SPACE How to Eat Würstel: Two Generations of Female Shoah Exiles in London; E.Eppler Multiculturalism and Citizenship in the UK: The Case of Female Genital Mutilation; A.Guiné & F.J.M.Fuentes Rising above the Bottom of German Society: Reflections on Interviews with Female Roma Refugees from Former Yugoslavia; M.Halpaap