On April 24, 2024, Emeritus Professor Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones and Alma Concepción visited Professor Germán Labrador’s graduate seminar SPA 560 “Shadows of the People: Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Spain” to talk about the Republican exile in the Caribbean in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. In his presentation, Professor Díaz-Quiñones focused on the cases of prominent exiled musicians, the Catalan cellist Pablo Casals (1876–1973) and the Spanish pianist María Rodrigo (1888–1967), as well as on examples of visual art related to these artists, mostly produced by the Puerto Rican graphic artist Lorenzo Homar (1913–2004). Based on Hannah Arendt’s concept of “natality” as the ability to renew oneself, Professor Díaz-Quiñones reflected on the Republican exile through the lens of a collection of fragments, entitled Isla de la simpatía, by the Nobel laureate Juan Ramon Jiménez that he himself edited. He suggests that the author constructs Puerto Rico as “the island of defeat” while simultaneously highlighting its ability to heal the exiled subjects. However, the idea of resurrection does not only apply to people but also to space: both through the narrator’s nostalgic projection of Andalusia onto the Puerto Rican landscape and the memory of the colonial city. Professors Germán Labrador and Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones concluded that exile narratives stand out for their double pairing of the self and an “other,” one that leaves and one that stays, of the future and the past.