Cartographies of the Self: Luisa Carnés and the Chronicle of Exile from Barcelona to Mexico

Abstract This essay examines Luisa Carnés’s life writing practices during her forced exile in France and Mexico as a consequence of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship. As her writings map Carnés’s cartographies of the self, Carnés voices her experiences of exile and those of other exiled Spaniards, and the duality of her narrative subject, which establishes her new identity as a Mexican citizen wrapped in an existential nostalgia for her city of birth, Madrid.