2024/09/16 by Teubert, Franziska
#Luisa Carnés #Spanish republican exile in Mexico #cuentos-reportajes #female proletarian journalism #heteronym #polyphony
paper · doi:10.23692/imex.25.7
pp. 110-136 This study examines phenomena of polyphony in the literary and journalistic exile-œuvre of the Spanish reporter and novelist Luisa Carnés (1905–1964), which has previously been marginalized by both the literary canon and literary studies research. Emphasizing the dialogue between reportage, feuilletonistic prose and narrative writing in hybrid forms such as the 'cuentos-reportajes', the aim of the work is to identify characteristics of a female proletarian polyphony at the interface of literary and journalistic discourse. Narrative procedures such as self-reflexivity and media reflexivity are assumed to be strategies of female self-authorization; the specific writing formats and practices of the Spanish republican exile in Mexico motivate a heteronymous polyphony. For this purpose, several journalistic and narrative texts by the author, published between 1947 and 1963, are examined in a close reading based on a media-historical perspective.