Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
New York, NY : City University of New York
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
294p.
Notes:
"The objective of this dissertation is to show that the Caribbean culture plays an essential role in Gabriel García Márquez's works, determining space, and structure and influencing his characters. In his books, the novelist revisits the first colonial chroniclers' vision and presents the Caribbean as a unified anthropological marvel, which irradiates from the West-Indian archipelago towards the southern portion of United States, Central America, and the northern zone of South America. The Caribbean culture is not only a vital source from which his narrative is born, but he cleaves his novelistic space into two opposite worlds, converting them in hyperbolic antinomies."
Also published in Colección Premios anuales (Santo Domingo : Editora Nacional, c2007), for having won the Premio Nacional de Ensayo. Modalidad Ensayo Literario, 2006.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"Magic realism emerged as a literary force in Latin America in the 1940s, and it has continued to have an impact on literature throughout the Americas through the start of the twenty-first century. In recent years, a number of post-colonial scholars have noted that magic realist texts are being used as a form of social protest throughout the world. These scholars have labeled magic realism subversive, hybrid, mestizo, or "impure." The implications of the relationship between magic realist literature and social protest, however, have not been the focus of detailed scholarship. This study explores the relationship between magic realism and social protest in novels written in Latin America and the United States between 1950 and 1990, seeking to determine why the literary mode of magic realism in an effective vehicle for addressing volatile social issues. Organized chronologically, the study begins with an overview of the term "magic realism" and a brief discussion of some of the important predecessors of magic realist literature in the Americas. Later chapters use a range of theoretical tools within a comparative framework in order to perform detailed analysis of specific writers - Juan Rulfo, Elena Garro, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Rudolfo Anaya, Alma Luz Villanueva, Toni Morrison, and Linda Hogan- in order to explore how magic realist techniques have been adapted to different forms of protest according to each author's time and geographical space."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
New York, NY : Columbia University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
22, 124, 179, 180
Notes:
"This thesis offers a discussion of spiralisme and of its contribution to the domain of Francophone Caribbean letters during the latter half of the twentieth century. In a literary universe dominated by "big voices" from the French overseas department of Martinique, the Haiti-born spiralisme has long remained ignored in, underappreciated by, and excluded from discussion among Francophonists. My project sets out to rectify this situation, not only by offering a thorough presentation of the spiralist novel in and of itself, but also, and perhaps more importantly, by integrating spiralisme into a larger post-colonial Caribbean context."