Blanca Lydia Trejo: una mexicana en la guerra civil española
abstract
The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) aroused the solidarity of hundreds of thousands of foreigners who fought in the ranks of the Republican army and numerous intellectuals who travelled around the country and left written testimony of their experiences. This is the case of Blanca Lydia Trejo, a Mexican woman who, installed in Barcelona at the request of President Lázaro Cárdenas, participates in the rescue brigades organised by the anarcho-syndicalist women’s movement of Mujeres Libres. Deeply disillusioned by the frictions between the republican forces, especially by the performance of the communist leading cadres, her testimony, published in Mexico in 1940, is an interesting literary material because it is the witness to the author’s narrative alterity.
Keywords: Otherness • Mujeres Libres • Hybridisation of literary genres • Mexican writers in the Spanish Civil War • Feminism