The artistic development of the Argentine writer María Luisa Carnelli and the role in the Spanish Civil War.

Abstract

This article reconstructs the literary and professional career of the Argentine writer María Luisa Carnelli, and focuses on the study of the period during which she lived in Spain, working as a chronicler of the Civil War. My inquiry begins in the 1920s, in order to explore her literary works (four poetry books, tango lyrics and a novel) and show her political commitment to social struggles and  to the emancipation of women. Since the mid-1930s, Carnelli put her literary writing at the service of the Republican cause. The objective of my research is to recover the importance of her work, through the analysis of her war chronicles and the reconstruction of the intellectual networks in which she participated. This paper's hypothesis is that Carnelli was a prominent emergent of transnational female antifascism during the Civil War.