Figures of exile Figures of Exile contributes to the ongoing dialogue in the field of exile studies and aims to refamiliarise a wider readership with the Spanish exile of 1939. It provides new perspectives on the work of canonical figures of this exile such as Rafael Alberti Luís Cernuda José Bergamín Pedro Salinas Francisco Ayala Emilio Prados Federico García Lorca or María Zambrano and brings to the fore the work of less studied figures like José Díaz Fernández Juan David García Baca Ernesto Guerra da Cal Nuria Parés María Luisa Elío María Teresa León and Tomás Segovia. Rather than being disparate this broad scope which ranges from first generation to second generation exiles from Galicia to Andalusia from philosophers to poets is testament to the wide ranging impact of the Spanish Republican exile