Rescatadas del olvido : Tras los pasos de las extranjeras que escribieron sobre España

The women featured in this book arrived in Spain during the tumultuous 20th century, either to cover the Civil War or to travel through a post-war country. They were better than their male counterparts, husbands, or lovers, and this is not merely a statement meant to stir consciences. They had to overcome greater adversity, confronting the indifference, paternalism, and machismo inherent in that society. Many fought to denounce what Franco's fascist triumph meant for the rest of the world, and they wrote chronicles and books as excellent as their male peers. But they remain relegated to the margins of history. In these pages, Ana Cañil retraces the steps of Nancy Cunard, Simone Téry, ​​Virginia Cowles, Lillian Hellman, and Sylvia Plath, among others, through our country—a task that is both beautiful and fruitless: rediscovering their paths, with their works in hand, is gratifying, but there is hardly any trace of them left, except for a street named after Tina Modotti in Gijón. Reading this book opens up new interpretations of history and reveals that there is still much to rescue from oblivion.