Project: “Escrituras, imágenes y testimonio en las autoras hispánicas contemporáneas. III. Exilios y migraciones” (2022-2025)

This Project aims to analyze the representations of migrations in literary and theatrical works by Hispanic Women Authors (20th/21st Centuries) -migrations caused by wars, political, ethnical and religious persecutions, and economic reasons. Special attention will be devoted to literary and theatrical representation of the Spanish Republican Exile (from 1939 and so forth) written by women authors, and their literary testimony of ethical and political engagement with democratic and egalitarian values. We are going to analyze how they fictionalize migratory journeys, arrival experiences and strategies of adaptation to host societies in their works and plays. By doing so, we want to evaluate Hispanic Women Writers contribution to a modern collective identity (hybrid, multicultural and diverse), that evolves through the last century from a national conception of collective identity to that transnational identity in which networks, models and activities from the country of origin and the host society coexist nowadays. 

It is funded by the State Research Agency of the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities in Spain. It is carried out at the Instituto de Lengua, Literatura y Antropología (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC), and it also incorporates members from various European universities (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Universiteit Utrecht, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle/ Paris III, and Universität Münster).

Research Team Members:

Main Researcher: Pilar Nieva-de la Paz (Research Scientist CSIC) 

2nd Main Researcher: Francisca Vilches-de Frutos (Research Professor CSIC) 

Raquel García-Pascual (PTenured Professor UNED) 

Marie-Soledad Rodríguez (Professor, U. Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris III) 

Christian von Tschilschke (Professor, U. Münster)  

Luisa García-Manso (Assistant Professor, U. Utrecht) 

Inmaculada Plaza-Agudo (Assistant Professor, UNED) 

Cristina Sanz Ruiz (Postdoc. Researcher, UCM)