Foreign women authors under Fascism and Francoism: gender, translation and censorship

This collection of essays highlights cultural features and processes which characterised translation practice under the dictatorships of Benito Mussolini (1922-1940) and Francisco Franco (1939-1975).

In spite of the different timeline, some similarities and parallelisms may be drawn between the power of the Fascist and the Francoist censorships exerted on the Italian and Spanish publishing and translation policies.

Entrusted to European specialists, this collection of articles brings to the fore the 'microhistory' that exists behind every publishing proposal, whether collective or individual, to translate a foreign woman writer during those two totalitarian political periods.