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AuthorKamen, Henry Arthur Francis.TitleThe disinherited : exile and the making of Spanish culture, 1492-1975 / Henry Kamen.Edition1st U.S. ed.
PublishedNew York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Pub., 2007.FormatBook
Descriptionxvi, 508 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

NotesIncludes bibliographical references (p. 449-456) and index.
ContentsPrelude: 1492 - A cultural legacy -- The survival of the Jew -- The persistence of the Moor -- The war of religion -- The discovery of ’Europe’ -- Romantic Spain -- Searching for a national identity -- The elite diaspora of 1936-9 -- The search for Atlantis -- Hispanic identity and the permanence of exile -- The return of the exiles.
AbstractFew would doubt that Spain has for several centuries made a huge contribution to Europe’s culture. We all carry in our heads a seductive picture of what Spain stands for: its music, painting, buildings, and history. But what we do not understand is how much of this was the achievement of a very specific group: the Spanish in exile. Henry Kamen’s The Disinherited is the most significant and enjoyable book on Spain to appear for many years. He creates a picture of a dysfunctional, violent country that, since the destruction of the last Muslim territories in Granada in 1492, has expelled wave after wave of its citizens in a brutal attempt to create religious and social conformity. Muslims, Jews, Protestants, liberals, Socialists, and Communists were all driven abroad at different times, and consequently what we think of as Spanish culture was substantially their invention--a creative response both to having no home and to the shock of encountering new worlds.
With brilliant sympathy, Kamen describes these diverse exiles’ travails as they scattered across Europe and Africa, across North and South America, many of them debarred by religion or politics from ever returning to Spain. They engaged in an unending project of fantasy about their old homeland--from the Sephardic communities of Amsterdam to the exiled Granada Muslims in Morocco, from liberal historians inventing the Black Legend of the Inquisition to painters in Paris inventing turreted, sensual Orientalist fantasies about the Alhambra. The twentieth century saw fresh waves of exile--from Picasso to Miró, Dalí to Buñuel, from Casals to Falla to Rodrigo--converting Spain itself into a cultural wasteland but enriching other cultures enormously. The Disinherited is a landmark work of cultural recovery, showing how Spain’s history has created a "virtual" culture imagined by people often thousands of miles from home--but whose impact on the world has been incalculable.
Includes information on Africa, America, anticlericalism, anti-Semitism, Aragon, Max Aub, Azorin (Jose Martinez Ruiz), Jose Maria Blanco White, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Bullfighting, Luis Bunuel, Lord Byron, Pablo Casals, Americo Castro, Catalonia, Miguel de Cervantes, children as refugees, Spanish Civil War, clergy, Christopher Columbus, conversos, Cuba, Salvador Dali, Disaster of 1898, Alexandre Dumas, England and Spanish exiles, Enlightenment, Spain’s future in Europe, Ferdinand the Catholic, film and culture, food and exile culture, France, General Franco, Germany, Frincisco de Goya, city of Grenada, Guernica, gypsy themes, Hispanic culture, Victor Hugo, Spanish Inquisition, intellectuals, Isabella the Catholic, Islamic culture, Jesuits, Jews and Judaic culture, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Joseph Bonaparte, Mariano Jose de Larra, Latin tongue, Liberals in exile, exiles in London, Antonio Machado, Salvador de Madariaga, Ramiro de Maeztu, Gregorio Maranon, Ramon Menendez Pidal, exiles in Mexico, Moriscos, Morocco, musical culture, Muslims in Spain, Napoleon Bonaparte, Nationalist forces in Civil War, New York and exile culture, Novel Prizes, North Africa, opera in Spain, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Paris (center for Spain’s culture), Philip II, Philippines Islands, Pablo Picasso, Popular Front, Portugal, pro-French sympathizers, Puerto Rico, Don Quixote, refugees from Spain, religion, Republican forces, romantic movement and romanticism, Rome, Salamanca, science, Second Spanish Republic, Seville, Spanish language, Toledo, Miguel de Unamuno, United States of America, Valencia, Juan Valera, Juan Luis Vives, Jose Zorrilla, etc.
ISBN00607308629780060730864SubjectExiles -- Spain.
Exiles -- Spain.
Spain -- Civilization.
Spain -- History.

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