Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
The City as Spectacle: Santo Domingo as Seen by the First Travelers
Department
Modern Languages & Literatures Department
College
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Date Range
2012-2013
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities
Abstract
This paper examines the transformation of the colonial city of Santo Domingo into a spectacle before the eyes of the first travelers who visited the city during the 19th century. I argue that in the writings of these visitors, we can see how the dilapidated buildings of the colonial city began to make the transfer from "rat-infested slums" to "glorious heritage"--a process that would take place in the 1980's with the urban renovation project implemented by the Dominican President Joaquin Balaguer.
Conference Name
39th Congress of the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature
Conference Location
Cadiz, Spain
ScholarWorks Citation
Serrata, Medar, "The City as Spectacle: Santo Domingo as Seen by the First Travelers" (2013). Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants. 1064.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fsdg/1064
