Género, cuerpo e identidad como espacios de la narración en la obra de Luisa Carnés

Abstract

In this paper we propose to offer a new perspective on the exploration of the female world, one of the central axes of the work of Luisa Carnés (Madrid, 1905-Mexico City 1964), both with respect to Spanish production, before her exile, and Mexican production. On the basis of the demands shared by the feminism of her time, Carnés questions the most intimate nature of those dimensions that have always been considered connatural to the gender in question: love, marriage, motherhood. Through the investigation of the dynamics generated between the characters and the spaces they inhabit – be it the domestic space or their own bodies – we see that if the starting point of her writings is a feminist vision of reality, the end point undoubtedly encompasses the entire female world, which becomes the privileged space of narration.

Keywords: Luisa Carnés, Women’s Literature, Republican Exile, Feminism