Mosaic Fictions
Writing Identity in the Spanish Civil War

Emily Robins Sharpe (Author)

9781487501426

Hardback, published 26 March 2020

240 pages, 4 b&w illustrations
23.5 x 15.9 x 2 cm, 0.5 kg

"Mosaic Fictions is a valuable addition to the emerging bibliography on the Spanish Civil War as a transnational phenomenon, and its concern for intersectional identities brings fresh thinking to the question of how conflicts are used, interpreted, and remembered not only across time but also across broad geographical and cultural spaces… scholars interested in the international and increasingly global resonances of the Spanish Civil War will find here important discussions which connect individual and local identity politics to a distant yet resonant conflict." - Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, University of Warwick (Journal of Modern Jewish Studies)

Mosaic Fictions is the first book-length critical analysis of Canadian Spanish Civil War literature. Exploring published and archival writings, the book focuses on the extensive contributions of Jewish Canadian authors as they articulate the stakes of the Spanish Civil War (1936–9) in the language of a nascent North American multiculturalism. Placing Jewish Canadian writers within overlapping North American networks of Jewish, Black, immigrant, female, and queer writers challenges the national distinctions that dominate current critical approaches to Anglophone Spanish Civil War literature.

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