María Enciso: Cartografías de la memoria

Abstract

María Enciso’s work, written entirely in exile, represents an attempt to symbolically recover the lost homeland through the recollection of its landscapes. In her cartography of distance, the literary settings—also present in other poets such as Machado or Lorca—merge with the biographical places of her childhood and youth. Her memory brings together both the reflections of the Generation of ’98, which dominate her essayistic production, and the modernist aesthetic that shapes her poetry, focused on the symbolic representation of spaces or natural elements imbued with political and emotional significance, where national and personal identity intertwine and blur. Both the prose and poetry of María Enciso form an intensely topographical writing, tracing maps of personal and collective experience.