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Book Synopsis«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 Letrán, 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, Luís Cernuda, José Bergamín, Pedro Salinas, Francisco Ayala, Emilio Prados, Federico García Lorca or María Zambrano, and brings to the fore the work of less-studied figures like José Díaz Fernández, Juan David García Baca, Ernesto Guerra da Cal, Nuria Parés, María Luisa Elío, María Teresa León and Tomás 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.
Table of ContentsContents: The Poetics of Exile – Álvaro García y Nigel Dennis: José Díaz Fernández: un poeta de 20 en la España de 1920 (Posthumous Article) – Emilio Javier Peral Vega: « Azul en nuestro oscuro aire ». Lorca / Cernuda: A Dialogue in vita e in morte – Luis Pascual Cordero Sánchez: Rafael Alberti en Francia (1939–1940): poetización de la experiencia como refugiado – David Miranda-Barreiro: « Ceibe na Saudade »: Ernesto Guerra da Cal’s Exile Poetry – Mariama Ifode-Blease: «They Were the Voice and We the Echo»: Voice, Identity and Landscape in the Poetry of Nuria Parés – Eduardo Tasis Moratinos: La influencia de Emilio Prados en la obra poética de Tomás Segovia – Thinking through Exile – Daniela Omlor: The Notion of Truth in María Zambrano’s Filosofía y poesía and Its Heideggerian Echoes – Salomé Foehn: 1937–1938. La salida al exilio de Juan David García Bacca, de París a Quito – Iván López Cabello: «My World Is Not of This Kingdom»: José Bergamín’s Republican and Dissenting Voice during the Spanish Transition – Jennifer Irvine-Cadman: Piecing Together the Puzzle: María Luisa Elío’s Autobiographical Project – Natalia Vara Ferrero: Cervantes como conciencia disidente: la obra cervantina en algunos autores del exilio republicano.
