Monographs
Los refugiados españoles y la cultura mexicana.
Actas de las segundas jornadas
JAMES VALENDER AND OTHERS
The second symposium on “Los refugiados españoles y la cultura mexicana,” was held in Mexico City, November 1996. The Residencia de Estudiantes began this bi-annual event 1994, aimed at emphasizing the historical relationship between Spanish culture and Latin American countries, especially Mexico.
These proceedings of the symposium collect essays on the 1940’2, 50’s and 60’s, as well as the experience in Spain of Alfonso Reyes, Manuel Toussaint and Jesús T. Acevedo. One of the virtues of this volume is its interdisciplinary character, with essays on writers such as Luis Cernuda, Juan Gil Albert, Emilio Prados, Ramón Xirau, Manuel Durán and Tomás Segovia; on the Arts, on Luis Buñuel’s films in Mexico, and on José Moreno Villa and the Mexican school of painting.
There are also papers on the political aspects of exile, the institutions founded by the Spanish republicans, the decisive role played by diplomat and politician, Narciso Bassols in the evacuation of Spanish refugees, the influence of Ortega y Gasset and his disciple José Gaos on young Mexican philosophers; and pioneering essays on the quiet, but immense, work done in Mexico by Spanish scientists, such as Ignacio Bolivar, Cándido Bolivar, Enrique Rojas, Blas Cabrera and Rafael Méndez.
Twenty four contributors from Mexico and Spain: James Valender, Rose Corral, Juan Manuel Díaz de Guereñu, Arturo Souto, Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Andrés Lira, Alicia Alted and Javier Garciadiego, among others.
