Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Dep. Filología Española
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
This study defines the "Boom" in the new Hispanic American novel between the years 1962 and 1968 beginning from a proposal that is interrelated with the social context of the group of countries where it arises and that of texts that, because they were experimental, were considered aesthetically isolated and new. The following novels are studied: La casa verde, Rayuela, Cien años de soledad, La muerte de Antonio Cruz, Gracias por el juego, and José Trigo.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias de la Información
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Panoramic description of the life and works of Gabriel García Márquez as a journalist divided in four chapters: on the Colombian coast, in Bogotá, in Europe, and in America as an international contributor. Each of these chapters corresponds to determined journalistic periods. Other than the circumstances of each work, the evolution of themes, basic structures, resources, and other formal characteristics of the writings are described. Also shown are the connections between his journalistic works and his literary works. Information about determined aspects of his political biography and direct testimonies of old companions from Bogotá are provided as well.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About 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 the power is accessed and wielded by female characters in the writings of Willa Cather, Gabriel García Márquez, and Dorothy Allison. Engaging the strategies of feminist geographies employed, critics including Doreen Massey, Gillian Rose, and the Women and Geography Study Group, the dissertation analyzes the methods by which female characters negotiate successes or failures in accessing and wielding power."
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
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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:
1997-1998
Published:
Valladolid, Spain : Universidad de Valladolid, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Departamento de Filología Española
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
The novels about Latin American dictatorships are formed by elements that denounce the social, political, and economic problems of the towns that configure the Latin American world. Their main objective is to create a conscience of injustice and of the damage that men are submitted to in their environment. So that, the theme in "La figura literaria del dictador en "Tirano Banderas,"" "El Señor Presidente," and "El Otoño del Patriarca" studies the similarities and the differences in these novels with other Latin American authors who have studied the theme of dictatorships. By studying the thematic and stylistic development of these novels, we can see that Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Miguel Angel Asturias, and Gabriel García Márquez enter in the field of experimentation. In this way, the works contribute to the creation of a critical space that facilitates the study, interpretation, and the knowledge of the works that literally deal with the theme of Latin American dictatorship.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Boulder, CO : University of Colorado at Boulder
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"The goal of this thesis is to examine the ways in which contemporary novelists from Venezuela and Colombia have treated one of the most prominent nineteenth-century historical figures of South America, the "Liberator," also known as the founding father of their nations. The novels examined at length are Sinfonía desde el Nuevo Mundo (1990) by Germán Espinosa, Manuel Piar, caudillo de dos colores (1987) by Francisco Herrera Luque, El general en su laberinto (1989) by Gabriel García Márquez, La ceniza del Libertador (1989) by Fernando Cruz Konfly, and El insondable (1997) by Álvaro Pineda Botero."
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:
2003
Published:
Twin Cities, MN : University of Minnesota
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This dissertation studies eight Spanish-American writers (Isabel Allende, Miguel Angel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, José Donoso, Carlos Fuentes, Joáo Guimaráes Rosa, Gabriel García Márquez, and Juan Rulfo) and two French Caribbean writers (Maryse Condé and Simone Schwarz-Bart) and explores the use in their works of "magic realism" as an allegory of the colonial experience. Beginning in Chapter One with the work of Alejo Carpentier,... I have attempted to illustrate that the novel studies the trauma of colonialism and its enduring effects. Chapter Two examines the history and describes the elements that make up magic realism, illustrating its varied aspects with examples from the works of the authors cited above. Chapter Three deals with the history and description of allegory and shows how its characteristics mirror those of magic realism. Chapter Four studies the work of the two French Caribbean authors and explores the limits of allegory as seen in the work of Simone Schwarz-Bart. The conclusion makes use of a novel by New Zealand author, Janet Frame, to illustrate the fact that magic realism is found, not only in so-called "post-colonial" countries, but in the work of First World authors, where the effects of oppression are evident in the lives of the "colonizers" as well."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1997
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, Departamento de Filología Española
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
According to the author, journalism, commonly classified as a literary sub genre, has been a constant presence for García Márquez. The reading of García Márquez's journalistic work in relation to his fiction is essential to complement his narrative world because in his first journalistic period (1948-1960), the Nobel prize-winner experiments with a variety of styles, techniques, and genres that culminate in his masterpiece.