Towards a cosmopolitan historical memory? Transnationalisation and emotions in contemporary female galician authors

Abstract

This article analyses the contribution of female Galician writers to the transnationalisation of the common European memory of uncomfortable pasts, and how their main approach to it is through the use of emotional strategies. Following an overview of the field, this study focuses on two works by Rosa Aneiros and Inma Lopez Silva, respectively. The aim of this study is to valorise the contribution of women writers which has helped to avoid the risk of the overexploitation of the subject-matter of the Spanish Civil War while showing the moral and political potential of such novels, this yet to be fully explored.