The Image of the Woman in the narrative of the Spanish Blue Division (1941-1978)
Abstract
The volunteers of the Spanish Blue Division wrote some novels and memories about their experience in the Second World War. Among the topics that appear in them, stands out the relationship that the soldiers maintained with the Spaniards —nurses and war godmothers—, Germans and Russians women. The aim of this essay is to analyze the female role in the narrative about the Spanish volunteers in the Soviet Union until 1978. After that, I study the example of El desconocido (1956) by Carmen Kurtz, the only book about the Spanish Blue Division written by a woman during the dictatorship. We can thus appreciate a new perspective: the main character is the wife, who lives again with her husband after his return from the Soviet Gulag.
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