GEXEL publishes a bibliographic dictionary of authors, publishing houses and journals belonging to the Republican exile

13/02/2017

The UAB Study Group on Literary Exile (GEXEL) has published a dictionary with extensive information on authors and texts written during the Spanish Republican exile, entitled Diccionario biobibliográfico de los escritores, editoriales y revistas del exilio republicano de 1939 (Editorial Renacimiento) and coordinated by Manuel Aznar and José Ramón López, lecturers at the Department of Spanish Studies.

The dictionary is the result of years of collective work at GEXEL and includes authors in Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Basque. The dictionary however does not only contain authors of the Republican exile. It also includes publishing houses, due to the importance of the literary activity of these exiles, and journals, which were becoming the cornerstone of the literature of the future and are therefore fundamental to placing authors within a specific literary, social, ideological and political context.

The dictionary aims to be a reference work with rigorous information to facilitate future lines of research and motivate researchers, especially younger ones, to study and edit the works of forgotten authors, necessary to complete what is known about the history and culture of 20th century Spain.

GEXEL, a research group affiliated to the Department of Spanish Studies at the UAB, was created in 1993 and since then has devoted its activities to reconstructing the historical, cultural and literary memory of the Spanish exile of 1939, given that the majority of exiled writers, condemned to silence and oblivion by the Franco's dictatorship, continue to be ignored even today.

More information: Study Group on Literary Exile (GEXEL)