TY - JOUR

T1 - Retracing the Urban Map

T2 - Mercè Rodoreda’s El carrer de les Camèlies

AU - Bru-Dominguez, Eva

PY - 2013/7/18

Y1 - 2013/7/18

N2 - Drawing on Michel de Certeau’s conceptualization of the city dweller aswriter of the urban text, this article examines the spatial dimension of thefigure of the prostitute in Mercè Rodoreda’s El carrer de les Camèlies (1966).The article situates the urban scenario in the context of modernity by focusingin particular on the city’s effort to map out a coherent, albeit ideologicallyladen, urban space. It suggests that through the itineraries traced bythe prostitute, transgressor of social, sexual, and spatial boundaries, thenovel redefines the cityscape and unveils Barcelona’s myriad historical layersand multiple identities.

AB - Drawing on Michel de Certeau’s conceptualization of the city dweller aswriter of the urban text, this article examines the spatial dimension of thefigure of the prostitute in Mercè Rodoreda’s El carrer de les Camèlies (1966).The article situates the urban scenario in the context of modernity by focusingin particular on the city’s effort to map out a coherent, albeit ideologicallyladen, urban space. It suggests that through the itineraries traced bythe prostitute, transgressor of social, sexual, and spatial boundaries, thenovel redefines the cityscape and unveils Barcelona’s myriad historical layersand multiple identities.

KW - Mercè Rodoreda

KW - El carrer de les Camèlies

KW - the prostitute in Catalan literature

KW - Urban Studies

KW - the advent of modernity in Catalonia

U2 - 10.1179/1468273712Z.00000000020

DO - 10.1179/1468273712Z.00000000020

M3 - Article

VL - 13

SP - 347

EP - 360

JO - Hispanic Research Journal

JF - Hispanic Research Journal

SN - 1468-2737

IS - 4

ER -