This book collects essays which discuss women's representation of women and the war story in Latin American literature, looking in particular at their experiences, historical contexts, and their political and creative aims. This collection draws together for the first time a range of narratives of conflict and revolution as represented by Latin American women writers. By embracing a broad definition of conflict and by engaging with a wide range of narratives of conflict, it provides a space for multiple and complex versions of subjectivity, writing and experience-in-conflict to co-exist. This book collects essays which discuss women's representation of women and the war story in Latin American literature, looking in particular at their experiences, historical contexts, and their political and creative aims. This collection draws together for the first time a range of narratives of conflict and revolution as represented by Latin American women writers. By embracing a broad definition of conflict and by engaging with a wide range of narratives of conflict, it provides a space for multiple and complex versions of subjectivity, writing and experience-in-conflict to co-exist. Acknowledgements 7(2) Preface 9(4) Marjorie Agosin Introduction 13(12) Par Kumaraswami Niamh Thornton `Para sobrevivir a mi propio espanto': Las primeras ficciones de Isabel Allende y el conflicto politico en America Latina 25(22) Maria de la Cinta Ramblado-Minero The `Poetics' of Resistance: Three Cuban Artists in the Diaspora 47(16) Andrea O'Reilly Herrera An Old Family Narrative: Rethinking Testimonio and Gender 63(20) Kitty Millet In the Shadow of Salome: Woman's Heroic Journey in Julia Alvarez's In the Name of Salome 83(34) Leslie Goss Erickson `The Most Revolutionary Figure in Chile is La Mujer': Narratives of the Anti-Allende Women's Movement 117(22) Margaret Power Yo tambien Adelita: A National Allegory of the Mexican Revolution and a Call for Women's Suffrage 139(26) Sarah Bowskill Problemas de la transicion: Sexual emancipation and social transformation in the poetry of Gioconda Belli 165(26) Lorna Shaughnessy `El Dia Que No Haya Combate Sera Un Dia Perdido' (Antonio Maceo): Conflict as Catalyst of Self-Transformation in Women's Testimonial Writing from Revolutionary Cuba 191(26) Par Kumaraswami In the Line of Fire: Love and Violence in Mastretta and Belli 217 Niamh Thornton