Mosaic Fictions: Writing Identity in the Spanish Civil War

“Mosaic Fictions is a valuable addition to the emerging bibliography on the Spanish Civil War as a transnational phenomenon, and its concern for intersectional identities brings fresh thinking to the question of how conflicts are used, interpreted, and remembered not only across time but also across broad geographical and cultural spaces… scholars interested in the international and increasingly global resonances of the Spanish Civil War will find here important discussions which connect individual and local identity politics to a distant yet resonant conflict.” Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, University of Warwick, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies

"Among many admirable interventions, Mosaic Fictions does an excellent job – one of the best I can remember encountering – of situating the work of Mordecai Richler, a major Canadian Jewish writer, in a broader context, and its treatments of Leonard Cohen, Martha Gellhorn, and many other important but understudied writers are similarly valuable. Mosaic Fictions makes a fascinating case for ways in which Jewishness and other identities were in dialogue in a crucial, formative historical moment, and does so in such a way as to make a relatively narrow area of literary production much more widely relevant."

Josh Lambert, Sophia Moses Robison Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and English, Wellesley College

"A notable, original, and worthwhile contribution, Mosaic Fictions offers a range of research on the Spanish Civil war in relation to Canadian literature."

Norman Ravvin, Professor, Department of Religions and Cultures, Past Chair of Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University