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"Figures of Exile is an excellent volume of essays carefully
curated by Daniela Omlor and Eduardo Tasis that pays a long overdue
homage to the late Nigel Dennis, one of the most important
Hispanists of his generation. It does so brilliantly by bringing
together a group of talented international scholars - the majority
of whom can be considered as Professor Dennis's disciples - who
each offer original and illuminating perspectives on a variety of
topics and authors related to the Spanish Republican exile, a field
for which Nigel Dennis was an inescapable point of reference."
(Javier Letran, University of St Andrews) Figures of Exile
contributes to the ongoing dialogue in the field of exile studies
and aims to refamiliarise a wider readership with the Spanish exile
of 1939. It provides new perspectives on the work of canonical
figures of this exile, such as Rafael Alberti, Luis Cernuda, Jose
Bergamin, Pedro Salinas, Francisco Ayala, Emilio Prados, Federico
Garcia Lorca or Maria Zambrano, and brings to the fore the work of
less-studied figures like Jose Diaz Fernandez, Juan David Garcia
Baca, Ernesto Guerra da Cal, Nuria Pares, Maria Luisa Elio, Maria
Teresa Leon and Tomas Segovia. Rather than being disparate, this
broad scope, which ranges from first generation to second
generation exiles, from Galicia to Andalusia, from philosophers to
poets, is testament to the wide-ranging impact of the Spanish
Republican exile.
In recent years, much Spanish literary criticism has been
characterized by debates about collective and historical memory,
stemming from a national obsession with the past that has seen an
explosion of novels and films about the Spanish Civil War and
Franco dictatorship. This growth of so-called memory studies in
literary scholarship has focused on the representation of memory
and trauma in contemporary narratives dealing with the Civil War
and ensuing dictatorship. In contrast, the novel of the postwar
period has received relatively little critical attention of late,
despite the fact that memory and trauma also feature, in different
ways and to varying degrees, in many works written during the
Franco years. The essays in this study argue that such novels merit
a fresh critical approach, and that contemporary scholarship
relating to the representation of memory and trauma in literature
can enhance our understanding of the postwar Spanish novel. The
volume opens with essays that engage with aspects of contemporary
theoretical approaches to memory in order to reveal the ways in
which these are pertinent to Spanish novels written in the first
postwar decades, with studies on novels by Camilo Jose Cela, Carmen
Laforet, Arturo Barea and Ana Maria Matute. Its second section
focuses on the representation of trauma in specific postwar novels,
drawing on elements from trauma studies scholarship to discuss
neglected works by Mercedes Salisachs, Dolores Medio and Ignacio
Aldecoa. The final essays continue the focus on the theme of trauma
and revisit works by women writers, namely Carmen Laforet, Rosa
Chacel, Ana Maria Matute and Maria Zambrano, that foreground the
experiences of female protagonists who are seeking to deal with a
traumatic past. The essays in this volume thus propose a new
direction for the study of Spanish literature of 1940s, 1950s and
early 1960s, enhancing existing approaches to the postwar Spanish
novel through an engagement with contemporary scholarship on memory
and trauma in literature."
In recent years, much Spanish literary criticism has been
characterized by debates about collective and historical memory,
stemming from a national obsession with the past that has seen an
explosion of novels and films about the Spanish Civil War and
Franco dictatorship. This growth of so-called memory studies in
literary scholarship has focused on the representation of memory
and trauma in contemporary narratives dealing with the Civil War
and ensuing dictatorship. In contrast, the novel of the postwar
period has received relatively little critical attention of late,
despite the fact that memory and trauma also feature, in different
ways and to varying degrees, in many works written during the
Franco years. The essays in this study argue that such novels merit
a fresh critical approach, and that contemporary scholarship
relating to the representation of memory and trauma in literature
can enhance our understanding of the postwar Spanish novel. The
volume opens with essays that engage with aspects of contemporary
theoretical approaches to memory in order to reveal the ways in
which these are pertinent to Spanish novels written in the first
postwar decades, with studies on novels by Camilo Jose Cela, Carmen
Laforet, Arturo Barea and Ana Maria Matute. Its second section
focuses on the representation of trauma in specific postwar novels,
drawing on elements from trauma studies scholarship to discuss
neglected works by Mercedes Salisachs, Dolores Medio and Ignacio
Aldecoa. The final essays continue the focus on the theme of trauma
and revisit works by women writers, namely Carmen Laforet, Rosa
Chacel, Ana Maria Matute and Maria Zambrano, that foreground the
experiences of female protagonists who are seeking to deal with a
traumatic past. The essays in this volume thus propose a new
direction for the study of Spanish literature of 1940s, 1950s and
early 1960s, enhancing existing approaches to the postwar Spanish
novel through an engagement with contemporary scholarship on memory
and trauma in literature.
Jorge Semprun is a leading writer from the first generation of
Spanish Civil War exiles, yet studies of his work have often
focused solely on his literary testimony to the concentration camps
and his political activities. Although Semprun's work derives from
his incarceration in Buchenwald and his expulsion from the Spanish
Communist Party in 1964, limiting the discussion of his works to
the autobiographical details or to the realm of Holocaust studies
is reductive. The responses by many influential writers to his
recent death highlight that the significance of Semprun's work goes
beyond the testimony of historical events. His self-identification
as a Spanish exile has often been neglected and there is no
comprehensive study of his works available in English. This book
provides a global view of his oeuvre and extends literary analysis
to texts that have received little critical attention. The author
investigates the role played by memory in some of Semprun's works,
drawing on current debates in the field of memory studies. A
detailed analysis of these works allows related concepts, such as
exile and nostalgia, the Holocaust, the interplay between memory
and writing, politics and collective memory, and postmemory and
identity, to be examined and discussed.
The philosopher Maria Zambrano (1904-1991) is one of the foremost
Spanish intellectuals of the twentieth century. A disciple of
Ortega y Gasset, she taught at the University of Madrid in the
1930s and joined the Republican diaspora in exile, living in
Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Paris, Rome and Geneva till her return
to Spain in 1984. A heterodox philosopher who conceived her role as
that of an agent for ethical change, she sought to reconcile
philosophy and poetry, and wrote not only essays on philosophy, but
also plays, poetry, literary and art reviews, and a memoir. After
the relative obscurity of her life in exile, her genius began to be
recognized in the decade before her death, but she remains little
known outside the Spanish-speaking world. These essays explore her
legacy, offering new critical insights which draw on literature,
aesthetics, gender studies, psychoanalysis, political theory and
the visual arts.
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