Exile and Cultural Hegemony

After Francisco Franco''s victory in the Spanish Civil War, a great many of the country''s intellectuals went into exile in Mexico. During the three and a half decades of Francoist dictatorship, these exiles held that the Republic, not Francoism, represented the authentic culture of Spain. In this environment, as Sebastiaan Faber argues in Exile and Cultural Hegemony, the Spaniards'' conception of...