Barranquilla, Colombia : Universidad del Atlántico
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4(14)
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Originally published in La Casa de Asterión. Revista virtual de Estudios Literarios. Barranquilla, Colombia. Universidad del Atlántico. v. 4, no. 14 (July-September, 2003)
Five volumes of journalistic work. v. 1: Textos costeños (1948-1952), v. 2: Entre cachacos (1954-1955), v. 3: De Europa y América (1955-1960), v. 4: Por la libre (1974-1995), v. 5: Notas de prensa (1961-1984).
This book contains 16 sessions of a workshop under the direction of García Márquez. It is divided into sixteen sections, an argument, a concluding chapter writter by Ruy Guerra and Claudio McDowell, and data of the participants. The members of the workshop were: Doc Comparato, Eliseo Alberto Diego, Andrés Agudelo, Iván Argüello, Susana Cato, Luis Alberto Lamata, Manuel Gómez Díaz and Arturo Villaseñor. Edgar Soberón is the editor of the sections and Gabriel García Márquez the director.
Writers' workshop for movie scripts led by Gabriel García Márquez. The participants included Marcos R. López (Argentina), Manuel F. Nieto Arango (Colombia), Denis Pinho França de Almeida (Brasil), Elid Pineda Arzate (México), Cecilia Pérez Grovas (México), Victoria Eva Solanas (Argentina), Gloria Saló Benito (España), María del Socorro González Ocampo (Colombia), Reinaldo Montero Ramírez (Cuba), y Roberto Gervitz (Brasil).
"A collection of chronicles and news articles that García Márquez sent beyond the Atlantic from Geneva, Rome, Venice, Vienna, London, Paris, and other places."
Viewed on March 25, 2008. This is the text of a speech García Márquez made on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Juan Rulfo's El llano en llamas. García Márquez speaks of the influence Juan Rulfo's writing has had on him.
Ollero y Ramos Editores. Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión
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4p.
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Viewed on 27 March, 2008. This is part of the story-telling workshop, La Bendita Manía de Contar, directed by García Márquez. Here he discusses the art of storytelling and how to develop one's natural abilities.
Princeton, NJ : Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
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Library, University of Illinois
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Audiorecording narrating the story, "La viuda de Montiel."|Originally published: Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook CO., c1975. Distribution is restricted to RFB & D members who have a documented print disability such as a visual impairment, learning disability or other physical disability.
Princeton, NJ : Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
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Library, University of Illinois
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Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, c2002. Distribution is restricted to RFB & D members who have a documented print disability such as a visual impairment, learning disability or other physical disability. ||"This is the first volume in a trilogy of García Márquez's memoirs. The book begins as García Márquez returns to his hometown of Aracataca with his mother to sell the family's house. The narrative becomes a journey through Colombian history, starting with the writer's childhood in Aracataca and ending in 1957 at age 29, when he traveled abroad for the first time. The first volume reflects García Márquez's experience as both a novelist and a journalist." --Books in Print
Princeton, NJ : Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
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Library, University of Illinois
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Originally published: Evanston, IL: Nextext, c2003. Includes bibliographical references. "This book offers short stories, poems, plays essays, and excerpts from novels by prominent writers of Spain and Latin America presented entirely in Spanish. These collections are ideal for a variety of upper-level courses, particularly Advanced Placement Spanish Literature." --Back cover
This work relies on the hypothesis that Aureliano Buendía's character is based on the life of General Ramón Demetrio Morán. Thus Henríquez affirms that One Hundred Years of Solitude has been written in code and the literary style of the Nobel's fantasy and imagination impeded to find the true background of the novel.
This book constitutes a profound analysis of the partial work of a number of selected texts, that point out the socio-historic character in nine hispanic novelists. This series of critical essays about nine representative authors by Manuel Antonio Arango L., is a clear effort to study and deepen the social context of Hispanic literature and integrate it to the history of Hispanic America.
Salamanca, Spain : Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
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302 : 217 p.
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Previously published under Ceiba Editores in 1992. The considerable criticism and interpretative literature about Gabriel García Márquez has transformed him into a "stranger," and for the Colombian readership, his work has become something "unknown," states Carmenza Kline. Her goal is to give back the original spirit of the works, which was prevalent at the time of their writing. She provides excellent coverage of articles written about García Márquez and his works in the Colombian Press, something which is not always available in the USA.
"Since its publication in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude has sold well over 10 million copies and earned its author, Gabriel García Márquez, a host of awards including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. The novel has brought about comparisons to Cervantes, Faulkner, Woolf, and even the bible. This book is part of Harold Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations." -Publisher
Criticism and interpretation of Gabriel García Márquez's life and works, beginning with his life and progressing through to One Hundred Years of Solitude and ending with Love in the Time of Cholera.
A collection of essays about García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, including authors such as David T. Haberly, Keith Harrison, Roberto González Echeverría, John J. Deveny Jr. and Juan Manuel Marcos, Elizabeth A. Spiller, Paul M. Hedeen, Jonathan Baldo, Iddo Landau, Dean J. Irvine, Irvin D.S. Winsboro, Alexander Coleman, and Mary E. Davis.
"One of the most recurrent themes in Latin-American literature is that of dictatorship. And maybe the character that obsesses writers the most is the dictator. The return time and time again of literary texts about this subject appears to be no more than the persistent reflection in the history of Latin America of a phenomenon and a figure that, like the patriarch of García Márquez, resist death." -Jorge Scherman Filer.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida
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Library, University of Illinois
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124-150
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"In the light, The General in His Labyrinth (1983) may be read as yet another variation on the theme of solitary, powerful men whose separation from reality leads to the fracturing of the self, historical agency, and the promise of solidarity."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
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New York, NY : The Modern Library
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Library, University of Illinois
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127-180
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"The fourth book in the Modern Library's Paris Review Writers at Work series, Latin American Writers at Work is a thundering collection of interviews with some of the most important and acclaimed Latin American writers of our time. These fascinating conversations were compiled from the annals of The Paris Review and include a new, lyrical intro by Nobel Prize-winning author Derek Walcott." Includes biographical information, interviews, and an article by Silvana Paternostro called "Three Days with Gabo."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
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Lanham, MD : University Press of America
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Library, University of Illinois
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3, 55, 66-67, 70, 73, 78-86, 93-94, 96n18, 99
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Throughout this work there are references to the above authors, specifically to Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. This study, previously published as a doctoral dissertation, is concerned with the political theory of modernity in the work of Latin American writers and thinkers. Lutes affirms that the writers' central insights point to the need to assimilate tradition through a democratic dialogue combined with critical appreciation for the cultural uniqueness of nations.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Long Beach, CA : California State University
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Library, University of Illinois
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"The purpose of this study is to examine the image of the dictator in the literature of Latin America. The dictator, as he is depicted in the works of Alejo Carpentier, Augusto Roa Bastos, and Gabriel García Márquez, is a central archetypal icon who embodies the tragic history of anti-democratic rule in the Latin American republics. The dictator, however, also personifies the complexities and contradictions that come with military rule. The 3 authors seek to examine the dynamics of dictatorial power, but they also explore deeper psychological, aesthetic, historical, and philosophical problems surrounding the novel of the dictator."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Ottawa, Canada : University of Ottawa
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Library, University of Illinois
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"This thesis examines honour as a central theme in narrative passages of 'El alcalde de Zalamea' a seventeenth-century play by Spain's Pedro Calderon de la Barca, and in 'Cronica de una muerte anunciada' (1981), a short novel by Colombian Gabriel García Márquez. By means of a comparative study, and using narratology as the primary theoretical and methodological frame, this theme is explored through the analysis of both works at three different 'levels'; that of the characters, the narrators, and the implied authors with the intention of revealing the distinct contrast between the ideology expressed at all levels and, ultimately, at the level of the respective implied authors as the embodiment of the works' ideologies, in regards to honour as a socially-regulated code of conduct. An important portion of this analysis is dedicated to discussing the relationship between the fictional components of these works and their symbolic meaning in the external or 'real'/non-fictional world in connection with said ideology."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Las Vegas, NV : University of Nevada
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Library, University of Illinois
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"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:
2003
Published:
Miami, FL : University of Miami
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"In this study, I explore how three texts from the Colombian Caribbean challenge the notion of a consolidated nation-state and its rhetoric of complete mestizaje, late into the 20th century. With 'Cien años de soledad' by Gabriel García Márquez as the backdrop of my analysis, I unveil the treatment of race, myth and history respectively in three novels, and how violence shapes the meanings of these categories. The first chapter focuses on 'Chambácu, corral de negros' (1967) by Manuel Zapata Olivella. In this chapter, I define this novel as a depository of the memory of slavery in Colombia that asserts an African heritage in the Northern Coast. At the aesthetic level, I discuss Zapata Olivella's use of a social realist narrative style to articulate the identity and history of Afro-Colombians. The second chapter examines Alvaro Ceped Samudio's 'La casa grande' (1962) to explore the strategies he employs to recover and revise the events of the massacre of the Banana Workers in 1928. In my reading, the massacre emerges as the first wound that causes the disarticulation of the consolidation process of the modern Colombian nation-state. The last chapter centers on 'Los Pañamanes' (1979) by Fanny Buitrago. I define the legend of the Spanish Man, the foundational legend of the island and the text's organizing element, as a myth of origins that delineates the novel's space as a product of violence and penetration. I establish the use of myth as anti-myth to separate and divide, and to mark the difference that separates the insular space and the continental nation-state. In my conclusion, I return to 'Cien años de soledad' to explore how processes of reception and canonization in the symbolic market are 'produced' following strategies derived from the failed encounter between cultural modernism and social modernization. I argue that this process consists in eliminating the discrepancy between these two aspects to attain an abstract state of modernity."
"Explores the representation of power and in showing how the body can serve as a means to achieve everyone's desires, goals, and freedom in the novel The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and of Her Heartless Grandmother by Gabriel García MárquezS and the film "Eréndira," scripted by García Márquez. Master/slave theory in both texts. Representation of freedom for Eréndira. Battle for power and hegemony in the film and novel."
"Living to Tell the Tale, an astonishing first volume of the memoirs of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, closes with the author at age 28 leaving Colombia for Europe, a two-week assignment he stretches to three years. He is more than a decade from the string of masterpieces that will begin with One Hundred Years of Solitude." -Mellen
Viewed on July 8, 2004.||In homage to George Simenon, master of the police thriller, this article provides commentary on this book that brings together two tales, one of Gabriel García Márquez on a story of Simenon, and the other a tale written by Simenon.
"At the end of 2000, I spent three months traveling around Latin America-- Barranquilla, Cartagena, Bogotá, Mexico City-- to interview friends and relatives for an oral biography of Gabriel García Márquez. Autobiography is central to García Márquez's fiction, and I was curious how the people (many of whom make appearances in his work) who knew Gabriel García Márquez as a young man would remember him." -Silvana Paternostro
This book discusses the history and criticism in Latin American fiction in the 20th century and mentions Gabriel García Márquez on pages 11, 24-37, and 42-45.
"Using the analysis applied to a short fragment of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez as a basis, the author proposes to expose the elements which constitute the process of paternalization (knowledge, bisexuality, narcissism, Œdipal complex, identifications, parricide, the earth, woman and negative work). In conclusion, the author proposes several hypotheses concerning possible extensions of the concept of filiation."--Scopus
Detwiler says of Crónica de una muerte anunciada, "a short narrative by perhaps the most famous of the Boom writers, García Márquez's 1981 work dismantles the steps involved in producing an eyewitness account of a past event...[and] equates the production of eyewitness testimony with the act of making fiction."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi
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Library, University of Illinois
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50-67
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"In 1997, when the University of Mississippi Libraries put together A Faulkner 100: The Centennial Exhibition, the University archivist invited Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez to contribute a piece. The reflections of this author who, in the archivist's words, "is indelibly associated with the number one hundred," were, appropriately, the final item in the exhibition of one hundred items of Faulkneriana."
Cindy Forster, Steve Striffler, Mark Moberg, and eds
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Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Durham, NC : Duke University Press
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Library, University of Illinois
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191-228
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Forster examines the rural labor history of the revolutionary period in Tiquisate, a township where the Pacific coast plantations of the United Fruit Company sprang up in the late 1930s, and a comparison of this area to García Márquez's legendary Macondo.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Valencia, Spain : Quaderns Digitals
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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This article mentions details of Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs, beginning with the initial scene of García Márquez going to Aracataca with his mother to sell the house of his grandparents where he was born. Memoirs and autobiographies have this common zone in the memory which allows us to forget, rewrite, and invent. In the case of García Márquez, the richness of his life has been reflected in the worlds he creates in his novels. It's the gaze of the Colombian writer toward his life, toward the people related to him, that appears in his autobiography and delights the reader with how his stories and novels occur. He also does self-analysis in his book.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Valencia, Spain : Quaderns Digitals
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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On November 5, 2003, El Centro Americano PEN and Alfred A. Knopf will present Gabriel García Márquez with a literary tribute. The participants include the following authors: Paul Auster, Salman Rushdie, Jon Lee Anderson, Edwidge Danticat, Francisco Goldman, William Kennedy, José Manuel Prieto, Rose Styron, the translator Edith Grossman, and Jaime Abello, director of the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, which was founded by García Márquez.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Boston, MA : The Christian Science Publishing Society
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Library, University of Illinois
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14
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"Márquez's latest book, first published in Spanish last year, is an international bestseller. According to Publishers Weekly, it has broken all sales records throughout the Spanish-speaking world." -Carduff
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
New York, NY : The New York Times Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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3 Late edition Final Section A Column 1
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Commenting on the newest generation of novelists from Colombia, Forero states that Jorge Franco's two latest novels contain no hint of magical realism, the style of outlandish imagery that Mr. García Márquez made famous. Instead, Franco deals with a female assassin in a drug-fueled world in Rosario Tijeras, and the struggles of Colombian immigrants in New York in Paraiso Travel. The basis of this article is how the new wave of Latin American authors have strayed away from the style of García Márquez and formed a new wave. "The long shadow of Gabriel García Márquez has begun to fade."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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29, 82
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"As a non-realist writer from Spanish America, Borges ended up associated with Gabriel García Márquez and Juan Rulfo, writers both so different in style to Borges and, more important, so very involved in their own local realities, that one wonders whether the people making these comments ever compared these writers at all, or merely assumed a commonality among them based solely on geographical contiguity." (p. 29)
Lionel C. Carrasco, Rossana Fuentes-Berain, and Roberto Martínez Illescas
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Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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102-115
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The authors mention Gabriel García Márquez as a comparison from his story, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, in which everybody knows that the main character, José, is going to die, but nobody prevents it. The authors compare this to the survival of Latin America via networks.
"In critical theory, representation is often linked to the development of social themes that endorse violence, but its potential as a means to process the effects of violence is not always examined. 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. Precisely for that reason, Colombia has for years invoked its subsistence as a nation through textual representation. Few nations have originated so much public representation of their violence as Colombia, both for local and global audiences. The corpus of this dissertation is comprised of textual narratives written by Colombian authors from various perspectives and in different styles. 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 Garcia Márquez, two compilations of testimonial narratives, by Alfredo Molano and Patricia Lara, a novel by Fernando Vallejo and another by Laura Restrepo. Some of these texts emphasize a call for social involvement and others a reflection on the social effects of violence, in both practical and mythical terms. All of them have in common the reference to violence as an experience of survival, linked to the idea of national community. They register the disruptions, the fear, and the pain provoked by violence, bearing witness to the desire for a social order that would not include it, only possible through a new process of representation. The main conclusion of my analysis is that although textual representation can be an ally or an indirect supporter of social structures that promote violence, it also had the potential to be the means for the development of alternatives to these same structures."
Erika Munk interviews Nilo Cruz, the writer of the play "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," which was inspired by Gabriel García Márquez's short story by the same name. They briefly discuss Márquez's influence on the play and the playwright.
Washington, D.C. : Board of Editors of the Hispanic American Review
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Library, University of Illinois
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83(2) : pg. 361-363
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This article reviews two books by Ilan Stavans "Art and Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination" and "Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage." The author states, "At their best, these books offer insightful new readings of the ways in which literature has shaped the history of Latin America, from the moment Columbus read Marco Polo to the years Gabriel García Márquez has spend as an informal advisor to Fidel Castro." He later states, "'Art and Anger' is a collection of essays mostly about literature and politics in Latin America. Some are intended to introduce lesser-known writers such as Felipe Alfau, Ricardo Piglia, and Alfred Bryce Echenique, to a North American audience. Others reassess the titans of Latin American letters, such as Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa."
Canada : Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Library, University of Illinois
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28(55-56) : p.165
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LeGrand writes, "It has often been said that in Colombia, one was born Liberal or Conservative; Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel In Evil Hour (La Mala Hora) vividly portrays how such affiliations were lived at the local level."
Analyzes the issues and problems associated with contemporary family structure in Medellín. Briefly mentions how Alonso Salazar, Gabriel García Márquez, Victor Gaviriar, among others, managed to portray the urban family structure well.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Miami, FL : University of Miami
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"In this study I explore how three texts from the Colombian Caribbean challenge the notion of a consolidated nation-state and its rhetoric of complete mestizaje, late into the 20th century. With Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez as the backdrop of my analysis, I unveil the treatment of race, myth, and history respectively in the three novels and how violence shapes the meanings of these categories. The first chapter focuses on Chambacú, corral de negros (1967) by Manuel Zapata Olivella. In this chapter, I define this novel as a depository of the memory of slavery in Colombia that asserts an African heritage in the Northern Coast. At the aesthetic level, I discuss Zapata Olivella's use of social realist narrative style to articulate the identity and history of Afro-Colombians. The second chapter examines Alvaro Cepeda Samudio's La casa grande (1962) to explore the strategies he employs to recover and revise the events of the Massacre of the Banana Workers in 1928. In my reading, the massacre emerges as the first wound that causes the disarticulation of the consolidation process of the modern Colombian nation-state. The last chapter centers on Los Pañamanes (1979) by Fanny Buitrago. I define the legend of the Spanish Man, the foundational legend of the island and the text's organizing element, as a myth of origins that delineates the novel's space as a product of violence and penetration. I establish the use of myth as anti-myth to separate and divide, and to mark the difference that separates the insular space and the continental nation-state. In my conclusion, I return to Cien años de soledad to explore how processes of reception and canonization in the symbolic market are "produced" following strategies derived from the failed encounter between cultural modernism and social modernization."
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:
2003
Published:
Toronto, Canada : University of Toronto
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This study explores the representation of women in contemporary magic realist texts from Latin America, English Canada, and Quebec. From a feminist standpoint, it examines how men and women writers represent women characters in texts that allegorically use supernatural power to denaturalize social power. Intracultural and intercultural considerations of these New World texts reveal shared approaches, both positive and negative, to women's identities and roles. In the more progressive works - Isabel Allende's La casa de los espíritus, Jack Hodgin's The Invention of the World, Anne Hérbert's Les fous de Bassan, and Michel Tremblay's La grosse femme d" à côté est enceinte- women characters use naturalized supernaturalism (defined as the casual presence of the supernatural in the natural world) to affirm feminine subjectivity and freedom. The assumption of mythic forms or an engagement with the occult can give a female character mobility, spiritual freedom, and pleasure. But the power figuratively expressed through the supernatural is denied women in Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad, Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, Anne Hérbert's "L"ange de Dominique," and Jack Ferron's L"amélanchier.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
New York, NY : New York University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"The purpose of this study is to explore the intersection of literature and illness in order to demonstrate that disease metaphor is an effective tope for Latin American authors seeking to represent topics that have been culturally and historically pathologized in both national society and/or literature. It analyzes the way the rhetoric of the somatic for pathological was used at the end of the 19th century. It also traces the development of this rhetoric into the following century. The dissertation begins with an overview of general literary theory dealing with diseases and representation focusing on Susan Sontag, Julia Epstein, and Sander Gilman. It offers a linguistic perspective on the functioning of metaphor as well. By bringing the ideas of medical historian Charles Rosenberg to bear on this linguistic discussion the author defines the notion of the frame and framing. Frames can be understood as parallel to the concept of the artist's convention- constructs that inform the perception of disease as both a biological event and a social occurrence. Tuberculosis, cholera, and sexually transmitted diseases (AIDS in particular) are the illnesses central to this study. The Latin American writers Abraham Valdelomar, Manuel Puig, Gabriel García Márquez, and Reinaldo Arenas employ metaphors with these diseases in order to engage specific socio-historic material via frames."
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:
2003
Published:
Long Beach, CA : California State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"The purpose of this study is to examine the image of the dictator in literature of Latin America. The dictator, as he is depicted in the works of Alejo Carpentier, Augusto Roa Bastos, and Gabriel García Márquez, is a central archetypal icon who embodies the tragic history of anti-democratic rule in the Latin American republics. The dictator, however, also personifies the complexities and contradictions that come with military rule. The three authors seek to examine the dynamics of dictatorial power, but they also explore deeper psychological, aesthetic, historical, and philosophical problems surrounding the novel of the dictator."