Représentations de Tanger dans La Vida perra de Juanita Narboni d’Ángel Vázquez

• Main Author: Nathalie Sagnes Alem
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Pléiade (EA 7338) 2012-12-01
• Series: Itinéraires
• Subjects: Tangier; myth-making/unmaking; monologue; memory; identity; post-colonialism
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/957

Through the writing of La Vida perra de Juanita Narboni, Ángel Vázquez has linked his name with the city of Tangier. His fictional world cannot be dissociated from this unique urban space and the myths it has engendered. Tangier may thus be portrayed as a whole world in its own right or as a micropole; as a beloved mother figure or one that is hated; as the embodiment of perfect syncretism or the example of a society that is broken in more than one way. It reflects all the fantasies and frustrations of post-colonial society. By focusing his novel on all those contradictions and tensions, after twelve years of silence and exile, Vázquez is thus able to reconnect with the town’s memory.