El espacio y su función en El Cairo, mi amor, de Rafael Pardo Moreno Space and its function in Cairo, my love, by Rafael Pardo Moreno

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Spanish Department, Faculty of Al-Alsun, Minia University, Minia, Egypt

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This paper examines the role of narrative space in exploring the social and political situation in “Cairo is my Love” by the Spanish author Rafael Pardo Moreno. The novel tells of the several days stay of the hero in Cairo. It describes the places he visits or are introduced to. Accordingly, the reader is given a depiction of thee cultural, social and political status of Egypt in the final years of Mubarak’s rule. The research gives an account of all the places of reference as depicted in the novel highlighting the significance of the author’s description and the pragmatic role the names of these places play in cases where description is lacking. It has been concluded that narrative spaces in the novel is pivotal to character portrayal and in socially and politically green screening them. Narrative spaces also help pinpoint and delineate time and characters as strings of the main theme which is portraying the social and political status of Egypt at that time. Narrative space and description of places such as the airport and cafes draw an image of a common raveling atmosphere of oppression, dictatorship, turmoil and restlessness. These are evident features of places in the novel where the tourist goes and the waiter’s and belly dancer’s work. Describing places provides a keynote for the polarized, divergent and view-pointed dialogue between characters in the novel. Places as given and described in the novel are mostly public places catering for a general realistic overview untainted with exaggeration nor fantasia.

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Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
Volume 3, Issue 4
October 2022
Pages 132-153

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