Labyrinth of Mirrors: Liminal Spaces of Exile in the poetry of Ana María Martínez Sagi

Abstract

This paper distinguishes four types of possible spaces created in and through writing in the poetry of the Republican exile of 1939, one of a profoundly spatial essence. Among them, the liminal space is especially analyzed: the most abstract, complex and hermetic, linked to the strange, the disturbing and the sinister. This category is described theoretically and exemplified through a discussion about poetry and exilic symbolism —of the labyrinth, the mirror and the double— which focuses on the collection of poems Laberinto de presencias (1969), by the Catalan Ana María Martínez Sagi.