Unhomely Thoughts from Abroad — SPA4108.01
From Simo虂n Boli虂var鈥檚 recruitment of the exiled Francisco de Miranda in early nineteenth-century London, to the counter-revolutionary Guillermo Cabrera Infante鈥檚 Tres tristes tigres, written in a Hampstead flat, much of Latin America鈥檚 postcolonial identity has been forged outside its borders. Beyond defining home, exiles have defined their alternate environments. De Miranda鈥檚 statue still stands in Fitzroy Square, and Cabrera Infante lived in London for the rest of his life.