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Exorcising exoticism: Carmen and the construction of Oriental Spain
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"The gaze into the Orient had turned, as in a convex mirror, to reflect the Occident that produced it. . ."
Rana Kabbani
ONE WOULD THINK that everything has already been said about Carmen-- the character, the novel, the opera, and her infinite resurrections in the last one hundred years of plenitude-and that we might as well let her rest in peace. However, the persistence in the popular imagination of the notion of Carmen as the ultimate essence of Spanishness is troubling. A ...
