Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico, 1939-1975

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments PART I Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Intellectuals and Nationalism 1 Introduction: Intellectuals in Exile 3 2 Mexico and the Spanish Civil War 12 3 The Struggle for Cultural Hegemony 28 PART II Hope, Defeat, and Delirium: The Civil War and the FirstYears of Exile 4 The Popular Front and the Civil War: Contradictions of a Utopian Project 55 5 Paulino Masip: Nationalism, Moralism, and the Limits of the Popular Front Revolution 92 6 The Republican Countercanon and the Dream of Pan-Hispanist Unity 120 PART III Left out in the Cold (War): The Aporias of Exile and the Retreat into Liberalism 7 A Changed Political Landscape: The Appropriation of Liberalism and the Return of the Detached Intellectual 151 Contents C O N T E N T S viii 8 Ortega’s Legacy in Mexico: Elitism and Gaos’s Myth of Transtierro 186 9 Max Aub: Exile as Aporia 218 Epilogue A Disputed Cultural Heritage: The Exiles as a Tool of Political Legitimation 267 Notes 275 Bibliography 287 Index ...