Talk: Carmen, the degenerate genres

The myth of Carmen

The famous fictional character from literature and opera has been rejected by Sevillians, Spaniards, and the Romani as a stereotype, a folkloric reduction, and a tourism-friendly cliché.

Carmen is critiqued in postcolonial studies as an exoticized piece within a system of dominance and marginalization of the Romani, a community seeking to reclaim itself as a political subject.

For these same reasons, Carmen is also an example of the liberation and emancipation of new, late-modern subjectivities, of individuals striving to define themselves beyond inherited markers: those of nationality, race, class, culture, or gender.

Please note: As part of this programme we screen the film Carmen y la libertad in our film hall. You can buy a combi ticket to visit both the talk and the film.