Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Austin, TX : University of Texas at Austin
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"The Spanish-American historical novels of the late twentieth century have shown a marked tendency to feature as their main characters many of the greatest historical figures of the region. Even though there have been a growing number of worthy literary studies about the historical figures portrayed in these novels, they have generally centered on a given historical character in one or more historical novels. There is a need for a comprehensive approach to the study of the great historical characters that are profiled in the New and Traditional Spanish-American Historical Novel. This dissertation is devoted to the literary analysis and conceptualization of the great historical characters that appear in contemporary Spanish-American historical novels. The study aims to formulate a comprehensive literary theory that seeks to explain the presence of great historical figures in the Contemporary Spanish-American Historical Novel. This dissertation is multidisciplinary in nature, involving research in literature historiography, monumental sculpture and iconography. The central thesis of this dissertation is that there are a significant number of great historical figures that are 'de-monumentalized' or debunked as cult figures in the historical novels of the region. The first chapter if the dissertation demonstrates the central thesis by profiling and discussing in depth a wide range of new and traditional historical novels that de-monumentalize their heroic characters. Chapter I formulates the theory of 'De-monumentalization in the Spanish-American Historical Novel.' The Chapter addresses the fundamental question of what does it mean to de-monumetalize a historical cult figure, and which ones can be de-monumentalized in a contemporary historical novel. Chapter I advances three distinct modes of De-monumentalization. Three outstanding historical novels and their main characters represent these modes. Chapter II of the dissertation illustrates how Simón Bolívar is de-monumentalized in 'El general en su laberinto' (1989) by Gabriel García Márquez. Chapter III analyzes the de-monumentalization of Benito Juárez in Fernando del Paso's 'Noticias del Imperio' (1987. Chapter IV examines how Cuba's pantheon of heroes (José Martí, Antonio Maces, ect.) is de-monumentalized in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's 'Vista del amanecer en el trópico' (1974). Chapter V presents the conclusions that were reached in this doctoral project.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Las Vegas, NV : University of Nevada
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"By redefining social or economic 'classes' as cultures, or as Raymond Williams explains, groups that share a 'structure of feeling' the dissertation defines power in accordance with the shared values, beliefs, attitudes, and practices defined by the culture of persistence and the culture of wealth. With culturally determined definitions of power in place, the dissertation argues for a broader understanding of female power as that power associated and wielded by female characters in the writings of Willa Carter, Gabriel García Márquez, and Dorothy Allison. Engaging the strategies of feminist geographies employed by critics including Doreen Massey, Gillian Rose, and the Women and Geography Study Group, the dissertation analyzes the methods by which female characters negotiate the places/spaces where they live, work, and travel, evaluating their relative successes or failures in accessing and wielding power. The three analytic chapters examine works by Cather - the novel 'The Song of the Lark', and the short story 'A Gold Slipper' García Márquez - the novel 'The Autumn of the Patriarch, and the short story 'The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow' form the collection of stories titled 'Strange Pilgrims,' and Allison - the novel 'Bastard out of Carolina,' and the short story 'I'm Working on My Charm' from the collection titled 'Trash' respectively. In order to magnify the power of the female characters in relation to the definition of power specifically determined by the character's culture, whether the culture of persistence or the culture of wealth. At the same time, the spaces/places/locations where the characters live, work, and move through are analyzed to produce an understanding of how the characters access and wield power. Finally, a stark contrast is established between the female characters created by Cather and Allison and those created by García Márquez, since Cather and Allison fully imagine female characters who are successful at accessing and wielding power in the spaces/places they live in, work in, and move through. In contrast García Márquez creates powerful women whose power functions only fully in microgeographies, and García Márquez ultimately destroys those characters, despite their access to power."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Hong Kong, Peoples Republic of China : University of Hong Kong
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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(abstract) "This study examines the concepts of the archive and the manuscript, and how they are playfully raided by Barges, Puig and Márquez in Cervantes' shadow. At the same time, this study is on narrative theory, and also looks at Cervantes' influence on Latin American writers." Ph.D. Dissertation.
Herausgegeben von Ottmar Ette and Martin Franzbach
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Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Frankfurt, Germany : Vervuert
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
239, 284, 430, 600
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This work contains fundamental information for geography and town development, politics and society, economics and culture of today's Cuba. It treats numerous aspects apart from the current economic crisis and the relationship to Europe and the USA: tourism, housing and sexual politics, the myth of the revolution and the role of the political opposition, language, literature, film, music, painting and philosophy. The mixture of background information and Cuban history and culture, from the 20th century and articles to the direct present, makes this an equally useful manual today for specialists and aficionados alike.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
Perpignan, France : University of Perpignan
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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373p.
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Ngoueranga's doctoral thesis discusses the representation of the dictator figure in three Latin American novels, one of which is García Márquez's El otoño del patriarca.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
California, United States : Stanford University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
243 p.
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(Abstract) "This dissertation studies how textual representation can transform violence into a force that consolidates the affective and normative structures of a community. In the works studied here, violence is portrayed as a destructive and frightening phenomenon, but also as an experience of survival that strengthens communal ties. My analysis is based on theories of the nation as an entity constructed through narratives of violence, and my focus is Colombia, a country with a conflictive process of national consolidation...works included here are a textbook compiled in 1910 to teach national history in secondary schools, a sociological study of violence as a national problem from 1962, two early novels by Gabriel García Márquez, two compilations of testimonial narratives, by Alfredo Molano and Patricia Lara, a novel by Fernando Vallejo and another by Laura Restrepo." Ph.D Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
New York, United States : Teachers College, Columbia University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
213 p.
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(Abstract) "In The Autumn of the Patriarch, García Márquez presents the historic stagnation of Latin America. He also describes the underdevelopment in Latin America but offers no solutions. Since its independence, Latin America has worried about defining its future and its space in international politics; nevertheless, from the start, Latin America has had developmental problems...n The Autumn of the Patriarch, previous dictators are portrayed and dictatorships in other novels are referred to as well. We attempt to clarify the description of the mythical Latin-American monster: the dictator that García Márquez portrays in The Autumn of the Patriarch." Ed.D. Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Paris, France : University of Paris
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
677p.
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This dissertation is an exploration of the difficulties intrinsic in the adaptation to film of various Latin American works, including those of García Márquez.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Oxford : University of Oxford
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
357 leaves
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Keenan writes, "This thesis aims to examine the models of memory proposed in five contemporary novels: Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude, E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel, Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Toni Morrison's Beloved. I will interweave my discussions of these novels' ideas on memory with considerations of wider debates about repressed/false memories and memorialisation, and I will also discuss various concepts of memory found in the discourses of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis, history, and literature."