Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1Feminine Voices of Resistance against Dictatorships: Prison Memories from Spain and Argentina, Ana Corbalán 2 Nostalgia, Memory and Politics in Chilean Documentaries of Return, Antonio Traverso 3 National History and Resistance in Ricardo Piglia's Respiración artificial and Juan Goytisolo's Reivindicación del Conde don Julián, Julia Riordan-Goncalves 4 Counter-discourse and Exile in the Poetry of Rafael Alberti and Mario Benedetti, Carmen Faccini 5 On Food, Hunger and Parasites: Female Strategies against Censorship in Nada and La plaça del diamant, Irene Gómez-Castellano 6 Reimagining Gendered Identities in Laforet's Nada and Díaz's Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," Patricia Lapolla Swier 7 Queering the Cuban Exile: Reinaldo Arenas's Memoirs as a Sexual Outlaw, Rafael Ocasio 8 The World within the Island: The International Projection of Cuban Artists' Books and Prints: 1985-2009, Ana León-Távora 9 Puppet Theater: Staging Social Inequality during the Porfiriato, Yolanda Jurado Rojas 10 Wide-eyed Boys and Star Kids: Children and Violence in Voces inocentes (2004) and La lengua de las mariposas (1999), Niamh Thornton 11 Cosmovisiones and (in)appropriate/d Others: A Critical Reading of Santiago Roncagliolo's Noir Novel, Abril rojo, Vek Lewis 12 On the Annals of a History of Silence Fragments of '32 from 1932, Rafael Lara-Martínez and Rick McCallister About the Contributors Index.