Dos relatos de viaje por el Segundo Imperio Mexicano
Two Travel Narratives of the Second Mexican Empire

Summary/Abstract: In this article we propose an analysis of two travel narratives. These are the memoirs of two Austrians who traveled to Mexico as part of the entourage of the archdukes Maximilian of Habsburg and Carlota of Belgium when they were appointed emperors of Mexico (1864-1867). The first memoir was written by Paula Kollonitz, who spent six months in the country and served as one of the Empress’s ladies-in-waiting. Upon returning to her homeland, she wrote A Trip to Mexico in 1864. The second is by Carl Kevenhüller, one of the officers of the corps of volunteers who arrived in Mexico as a personal troop of the Emperor. From the diaries and letters he wrote during his three-year stay in Mexico, came up Mit Kaiser Max in Mexiko: avs den tagebuchdes fürsten Carl Khevenhüller: 1864-1867, first published in 1983. The problem that we are interested in studying in these two memoirs is the image of the Second Mexican Empire, constructed through the particular features that both memoires unfold, such as travel and self-narratives.

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