Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-303) and index.
Exile and cultural hegemony : intellectuals and nationalism -- Introduction : intellectuals in exile -- Mexico and the Spanish Civil War -- The struggle for cultural hegemony -- Hope, defeat, and delirium : the Civil War and the first years of exile -- The Popular Front and the Civil War : contradictions of a utopian project -- Paulino Masip : nationalism, moralism, and the limits of the Popular Front revolution --
The Republican countercanon and the dream of pan-hispanist unity -- Left out in the Cold (War) : the aporias of exile and the retreat into liberalism -- A changed political landscape : the appropriation of liberalism and the return of the detached intellectual -- Ortega's legacy in Mexico : elitism and Gaos's myth of transtierro -- Max Aub : exile as aporia -- A disputed cultural heritage : the exiles as a tool of political legitimation