Españoles en Europa: Identidad y Exilio desde la Edad Moderna a nuestros dÃas focuses on exile as a great identifier of modern times. It constitutes a highly comprehensive view of Hispanic exile through a systematic, transnational and trans-historical perspective.
Exile has played an essential role within Europe, which is presented as a complex conglomerate of cultures and literary traditions in constant transformation and dialogue. In the particular case of Hispanic exile, an undeniable complexity arises throughout its history due to various political, economic, cultural and aesthetic factors and to the essential significance of absent figures in the formation of Hispanic culture and identity.
Españoles en Europea: Identidad y Exilio desde la Edad Moderna a nuestros dÃas se concentra en el fenómeno del exilio como gran identificador de tiempos modernos, abordándolo sistemáticamente desde una innovadora perspectiva transnacional y transhistórica.
Professor Pablo Valdivia is Chair of European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen. He specializes in cross-disciplinary research on Humanities, Social and Cognitive Sciences with special focus on the relationship between Literature, Politics and Law.
All interested in the history of Spanish exile, and anyone concerned with both historical and contemporary academic problematizations of transnational literature.