Tempi e sogni della persona. L'esilio romano di María Zambrano

This essay aims to offer an analysis of the 'Roman' exile of philosopher María Zambrano, a Republican exile and prominent figure of contemporary thinking. Rome was, for Zambrano, the city she chose to 'live the exile': the city of writing and thinking 'about time, dreams, person and the exile experience, etc.', but it was also the beginning place of deep relationships of friendship and collaborations with Italian intellectuals and other Spanish exiles of that period

Hacia una historiografía del exilio republicano cultural: retos y propuestas

This article discusses two recent books where a reconceptualization of Republican exile in the context Spanish history is proposed. The purpose is to trace the genealogies of their respective conceptualisations and how they enter into a dialogue, and the challenge that these books pose as symptoms of a process of ideological struggle within the field of culture to establish a view of modernity and the democratic tradition is Spain. Following from these considerations, the article concludes by proposing the need for –and the challenge of– an alternative historiography to account for the cultural production of Republican exile

La despolitización de la memoria histórica del exilio republicano en democracia: paradojas, excepciones, y el caso de Jorge Semprún

This article discusses the political conditions under which the cultural and political legacy of the Spanish Republican exile is recovered during the Spanish Transition to democracy. It pays particular attention to the case study of Jorge Semprun and his role and that of his work during the aforementioned Transition and beyond, in the late 1980s, as a Culture Minister under the socialist government of PSO

Ciència i exili: Els científics republicans espanyols i la seua trajectòria itinerant

Science and Exile. Spanish Republican Scientists and their History of Wandering.The end of the Civil War also ended a period of scientifi c and cultural development, which had taken place during the Republic. Scientists and intellectuals who had been part of academic life, and often political life too, were faced with the choice of staying in Spain or going into exile abroad after the Francoist victory. Those deciding to stay, suffered repression under Franco and a kind of «internal exile», away from their professional career, while those who fl ed had to face the diffi culties of being in countries where there was mixed reception

Presos en Rusia: la memoria española del Gulag durante el franquismo (1954-1975)

Miembros de la División Azul y del exilio republicano permanecieron en los campos de trabajo rusos durante más de una década. A su vuelta, fueron utilizados por el régimen franquista para contribuir a la propaganda antisoviética que se desarrolló a lo largo de la dictadura. En primer lugar, el objetivo de este artículo es proponer una periodización para el corpus de la literatura española del Gulag durante el periodo 1954-1975. Y en segundo lugar, se analizan tres ejes temáticos para mostrar cómo el nuevo Estado aprovechó esta horrible experiencia con fines políticos.  Palabras clave: Gulag; División Azul; Exilio republicano en la URSS; España y la II Guerra Mundial.Members of the Spanish Blue Division and the republican exile were held in the sovietic Gulag for more than a decade. After their return, they were used by the Franco’s regime to contribute to the anti-Soviet propaganda, that it developed along the dictatorship. First, the aim of this essay is to propose a periodization to the Spanish Literature about the Gulag for the years 1946 to 1975. Second, three thematic axis are analysed to show how the Francoism took advantage of this horrible experience for political purposes.  Keywords: Gulag; Spanish Blue Division; Republican Exile; Spain and World War II

The Spanish Republican Exile as seen by “the Other Germany”

Tanto los exiliados alemanes que huían de la Alemania de Hitler como los republicanos españoles que escapaban de la España nacional coincidieron en diversas estaciones del exilio, siendo México un punto de encuentro para algunos de ellos. Se pretende dar a conocer la constelación de autores que interrelacionaron en el exilio mexicano, así como realizar un acercamiento al modo en el que el colectivo germanohablante presentaba la guerra española, la posguerra y la vida de los republicanos en México para el público alemán exiliado. Con este fin, el presente artículo analizará una selección de aportaciones publicadas en las revistas del exilio Freies Deutschland y Das Andere Deutschland, en las que se dejó constancia del vínculo que unía a los desterrados europeos y, especialmente, a los españoles republicanos y a “la otra Alemania”.The German exiles fleeing from Hitler´s Germany and the Spanish Republican exiles escaping from Franco´s Spain coincided in several exile destinations, being Mexico a meeting point for some of them. In this article we aim to show the constellation of writers that interrelated in exile, as well as to explore the way in which the German-speaking collective presented the Spanish war, postwar and life of Spanish Republicans in Mexico for the German readers in exile. We will analyze a selection of contributions to the exile journals Freies Deutschland and Das Andere Deutschland, which will show the bond that tied the European exiles and, specially, the Spanish Republicans and “the other Germany”

The journalistic production of the spanish republican exile (1939-1950)

El artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la tipología y características de los medios de comunicación del exilio republicano durante su etapa más fructífera correspondiente al decenio 1939-1950. Se han utilizado los fondos del Archivo de la República Española en el Exilio, el Partido Comunista de España, la Fundación Pablo Iglesias y el Centro de Investigación para la República Española en el Exilio (CIERE) a los que se ha aplicado la metodología cualitativa y el enfoque deductivo como vías de acercamiento a la realidad socio-comunicativa objeto del estudio.The aim of this article is to analyse the typology and characteristics of the Spanish Republican exile media during its most productive stage (1939-1950). The funds of the Spanish Republic Archive in Exile, the Communist Party of Spain, the Pablo Iglesias Foundation and the Research Centre for the Spanish Republic in Exile (CIERE) have been used in this research. We have used qualitative techniques and a deductive approach as ways of dealing with the object of study. Our starting point is the idea that the profile of the editors and journalists and their dispersal across Europe and America contributed to the fragmentation and fragility of its publications. The main centres of journalistic output in exile are set out, and we examine prototypes, contents and actors.Este trabajo se enmarca en el proyecto de investigación dirigido por Consuelo Naranjo cuya referencia es: HAR2012-37455-C03-01 (MINECO)Publicad

Visita a seis poetas hispanomexicanos : exilio y memoria = Visit with six Spanish-Mexican authors : exile and memoirs

1 archivo PDF (17 páginas). fhquadragintasexEl de las memorias es un género literario poco frecuentado por los escritores de lengua española; sin embargo, seis poetas hipanomexicanos, hijos del grupo de exiliados republicanos españoles radicados en México, nos han legado un grupo de memorias. ¿Cómo abordan sus recuerdos desde una perspectiva literaria? ¿Para qué? Su manera de hacerlo no se parece a como lo hicieron sus ancestros, y eso ya establece una diferencia literaria entre padres e hijos. PALABRAS CLAVE: Memorias. Exilio. Guerra Civil Española. Republicano. México. Hispanomexicano. Enrique de Rivas. Angelina Muñiz-Huberman. Gerardo Deniz. Carlos Blanco Aguinaga. Manuel Durán. Federico Patán. The memoir is a literary style that is seldom used by Spanish language writers; nevertheless, six Spanish-Mexican poets, all children of members of the Spanish Republican Exile group that settled in Mexico, wrote a series of memoirs as part of their legacy. How do they address their remembrances from a literary perspective? What for? This is what this paper is about. KEY WORDS: Memoirs. Exile. Spanish Civil War. Spanish-Mexican. Enrique de Rivas. Angelina Muñiz-Huberman. Gerardo Deniz. Carlos Blanco Aguinaga. Manuel Durán. Federico Patán

Antonio Soriano, una apuesta por la cultura y la democracia: la Librairie espagnole de París

En este artículo se analiza el mundo editorial y librero del exilio español republicano en América Latina y en Francia. Las condiciones de publicación fueron más difíciles en el país galo debido a la condición socioprofesional de los exiliados, al conflicto bélico mundial y a la cuestión lingüística. En concreto se aborda la experiencia editorial y librera de Antonio Soriano, propietario de la Librairie Espagnole de París desde 1948. Este establecimiento se convirtió en referente y paso obligado de todos los disidentes del franquismo. Aparte de contribuir a la difusión de la cultura española silenciada por los vencedores, publicó libros muy significativos en el contexto cultural del exilio.This study analyzes the publishing and bookselling world of Republican exile circles in France and Latin America following the Spanish civil war. Publishers ran into difficulties in France thanks to their social and professional status, the onset of the Second World War, and the language barrier. In this context the evolution of the publisher and bookseller Antonio Soriano, the owner of the Librairie Espagnole in Paris since 1948, proved exceptional. This bookstore became a landmark and meeting place for all dissidents during the Franco period. Soriano contributed to diffusing strains of Spanish culture silenced by the victors of the civil war, in addition to publishing books that played an important role in Republican exile culture.Publicad

Womenʼs Friendship in Exile: Healing in the Epistolary Correspondence Between Zenobia Camprubí and Pilar de Zubiaurre.

The epistolary correspondence between the Spanish intellectuals Zenobia Camprubi (1887-1956) and Pilar de Zubiaurre (1884- 1970) from October 1938 to August 1956 reveals a long friendship that began in Madrid in the 1910S and continued during the exile that they, as supporters of the democratic Second Republic, both suffered after the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the victory of dictator Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. During exile Camprubi writes to Zubiaurre from the United States, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, while Zubiaurre responds from Mexico, where she lived the last thirty years of her life. Out of their mutual correspondence fifteen letters written by Camprubi are held in the Archives of the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, Spain, while five letters written by Zubiaurre are kept in the Zenobia-Juan Ram6n Jimenez Foundation, in Huelva, Spain.1 The importance of these letters is that they illustrate the significant role that women played in exile as transmitters of information and preservers of the national culture in the communities of Spanish Republican exiles. In this chapter I argue that both Camprubi and Zubiaurre experienced a suffering and nostalgic exile and used their epistolary correspondence as a means to cope with it. Exchanging letters contributed to healing their exilic pain in three main ways: by giving and receiving information, by asking for and offering help, and by finding comfort and consolation in difficult times. Thus, both intellectuals conveyed to each other the situation of numerous mutual friends and the news they received from Spain. Letters also allowed them to ask favors of each other, for instance, offering advice on several issues and conveying messages to common friends. Finally, Camprubi and Zubiaurre found in each other\u27s letters the affection needed in hard times, as shown in the references to the importance of their friendship over others. Thus, these letters demonstrate how exiled women supported each other while being away from home and found solace through their mutual friendship