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32. Culture and Customs of Mexico
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Peter Standish and Steven M. Bell
- Format:
- Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Westport, CT : Greenwood Press
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 3, 143-144
- Notes:
- The authors briefly mention how Mexico has served the purpose of housing people in need such as exiled people or people fleeing oppressive governments. They also mention that there are also people who are not persecuted but still make Mexico their home, such as Gabriel García Márquez.
33. Dictators, Directives, Tyranical Figures, and Cultural Discourse: Jorge Zalamea, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Peter Anthony Neissa
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Boston, MA : Boston College
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Notes:
- "This study focuses on how a dictator or a culturally dominant power can use language to impose cultural values. As an instrument of power, language is used by dictator to educate, induce, or manipulate a nation's citizens into acting in accordance with the ruling power's cultural values and beliefs. Jorge Zalamea in 'El Gran Burundún-Burundá ha muerto'(1951), Gabriel García Márquez in 'El otoño del patriarca' (1975), and Mario Vargas Llosa in 'La fiesta del Chivo' (2000), draw attention to how the use of vernacular can resist cultural imposition by employing culture-specific items in order to represent its own culture and nature of reality. When translated into a different language, culture-specific items created a conflict of meaning between the original text and the translated text. This discord arises because the translated reference no longer conveys its original message. The original significance has been substituted in the translated text for a new meaning determined by the dictator or translators ideology, usage, or the untranslable nature of the original words. These culturally loaded words are categorized into three areas of language defines relationships of power and resistance between a dictator and his nation, or between one culture and another, such as the United States over Latin American Culture. The analysis of culture-specific items presented in this dissertation will provide an understanding of how language functions as an instrument for the imposition to gain or maintain power in 'El Gran Burundú-Burundá ha muerto', 'El otoño del patriarca', and 'La fiesta del Chivo.' Culture-specific items also suggest how translators may substitute the values of the source culture in the original text for their own cultural biases when translating from Spanish to English."
34. Dictators, Directives, Tyrannical Figures, and Cultural Discourse: Jorge Zalamea, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa., Ph.D Dissertation
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Peter Anthony Neissa
- Format:
- Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Boston, MA : Boston College
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Notes:
- "This study focuses on how a dictator or a culturally dominant power can use language to impose cultural values. As an instrument of power, language is used by a dictator to educate, induce, or manipulate a nation's citizens into acting in accordance with the ruling power's cultural values and beliefs. Jorge Zalamea in El Gran Burundún-Burundá ha muerto (1951), Gabriel García Márquez in El otoño del patriarca (1975), and Mario Vargas Llosa in La fiesta del Chivo (2000) draw attention to how the use of vernacular can resist cultural imposition by employing culture-specific terms in order to represent its own culture and nature of reality."
35. Ecluses, suivi de, La narration multiple dans le roman: 'Des feuille dans la bourrasque' de Gabriel García Márquez
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Melisandre Gibbs
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Montreal, Canada : McGill University
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Notes:
- "There are several ways of utilizing the plurality of narrative instances in a novel; the 'stereoscopic view,' which presents an object through the lens of several perceptions, is one of these ways. This is the case of 'Des feuilles dans la bourrasque (La Hojarasca), Gabriel García Marquez's first novel, which will be the center of our reflection on multiple narratives. We will study the structure of the novel through the notion of 'parallx' which implies the fragmentation of the object by the marginalization of each one its points of view. However, it is by revealing the 'stereoscopic' character of the novel with multiple narratives that the apparent lack of cohesion of the text will be qualified. The study will conclude with the following question: Does the structure of a novel with multiple narratives raise an ethical concern? 'Ecluses' is a story in five tempos, composed of five chronologically isolated short stories, which are interconnected by a context of common events and characters. The narrative of each of these short stories is supported by a distinct character. Nevertheless, it is the sum of the characters' perceptions, due to the active participation of the reader who has the role of making the different points of view converse, that the story to takes shape and goes forward."
36. Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Cordelia Chávez Candelaria
- Format:
- Secondary source, Miscellaneous
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Westport, CT : Greenwood Press
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- II M-Z : 504
- Notes:
- Gabriel García Márquez and his book "One Hundred Years of Solitude" are referred to in this encyclopedia in the "Magical Realism" entry as an example of this literary style.
37. Fallen Statues: De-monumentalization in the Spanish American Historical Novel of the Late Twentieth Century
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- José Antonio Alvarez
- Format:
- 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
- Notes:
- "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.
38. Fidel Castro: A Biography
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Volker Skierka
- Format:
- Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Kindler Verlag, Germany : Polity
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 1, 3, 104, 214, 215, 217, 225, 240, 255, 330,
- Notes:
- "This is a balanced, carefully researched, and sensitively written look at Fidel Castro and his legacy in Cuba. It shows the warts on thelegacy--- the economic problems, the reluctance to adjust to a changed world-- but it also notes that Castro has brought about an egalitarian society and that he has been true to his revolutionary principles. I have been involved in the Cuban drama since I first arrived in Havana in 1958 as Third Secretary of the old American Embassy. Yet even I learned much from this book. I highly recommend it." -- Wayne S, Smith, the former Chief of the US Interests section in Havana (1979-1982), is now an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a Senior Associate of the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC. The work refers to García Márquez on listed pages.
39. Gabo y Fidel: Un paisaje de una amistad
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Ángel Esteban and Stéphanie Panichelli
- Format:
- Secondary source, Bibliographies on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Madrid, Spain : Espasa
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 325-334
- Notes:
- Includes and extensive bibliography.
40. Gabo y Fidel: Un paisaje de una amistad
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Ángel Esteban and Stéphanie Panichelli
- Format:
- Secondary source, Books on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Madrid, Spain : Espasa
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Notes:
- The authors have traced magazines, archives, newspapers, and have interviewed people who met Gabriel García Márquez. Gabriel García Márquez, obsessed with power, leaders, and the highest diplomatic mediation, saw in the Cuban patriarch the model for which Latin America could some day construct a proper socialism. This book comes from a double fascination: Cuba and literature, where the lives of Fidel Castro and Gabriel García Márquez are told with their grandeur and misery.