"According to many testimonies, like García Márquez's exact contemporary the Mexican Carlos Fuentes or the Colombian critic many years younger than both, Michael Palencia Roth, 'Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)' is the one novel where Latin Americans recognize themselves instantly: their own social, cultural reality, their families, and the history of their countries. It is also the mirror in which a generation of Europeans and North Americans, by the millions, since its publication, have discovered the magical reality of an exotic continent, and a taste for its hallucinatory literature. Are they reading the same novel?"
This article reviews the book "Look Away! The U.S. South in New world Studies" edited by Jon Smith and Demorah Cohn. On page 1202 the author states "Smith and Cohn insist on refuting García Márquez's assimilation of the U.S. South into the Caribbean, arguing for the insoluble differences of the two spaces (7); Handley reminds us of how little we actually know of the historical traumas that underwrite such claims in the first place."
Barranquilla Colombia : Fundación Cultural Nueva Música: La Iguana Ciega
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Gabriel García Márquez is mentioned various times through out the book, specifically on pages 17, 24, 69, 70, 76, 82, 91, 92, 94, 98, 102, and 110-114.
Scarpaci describes recent changes in viewpoints in Cuban film. He focuses on the underlying satire and criticism that films use to portray Cuban culture, Socialism, bureaucracy, etc.. Scarpaci examines that a particular filmmaker,Fernando Pérez, has a magical realist undertone similar to García Márquez's work.
"Drawing upon the author's experiences of growing up white and gay in apartheid South Africa, this collection of personal essays explores themes of kitsch, displacement, love, sexuality, and forgiveness. A central question posed by the work is whether virtues such as love and forgiveness are worth the cost they frequently exact. These costs include, but are not limited to, denial of the self and individual perception in order to make possible a sense of profound union with other persons. In the end the dissertation concludes that it is best to accept a level of permanent and irrevocable yearning for connection and healing which human life will never entirely fulfill." Gabriel García Márquez is mentioned in the dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Alberta, Canada : University of Alberta
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
(Abstract) "The themes of the death of authority and the loss of self are portrayed in postmodern world literature. Through five culturally specific novels, both the themes of the death of authority and the resulting idea of the loss of self are explored. Gabriel García Márquez, Jerzy Kosinski, Milan Kundera, J.M. Coetzee, and Haruki Murakami provide the novels, each of which presents the postmodern individual living in the world with no sense of authority and no sense of self. These individuals abandon their cultural and social roles in the attempt to find themselves. The individual's situation is understood through the radical theology of kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Altizer and it's relationship to the deconstruction of Derrida and Barthes." (M.A. Thesis)
(Abstract) "In the four recent novels considered in this study, Nicaraguan novelist Sergio Ramírez adopts a particular stance towards history that reflects the essence of the sub-genre known as the new historical novel. The novels treated in the dissertation, Sombras nada más (2002), Margarita, está linda la mar (1998), Un baile de máscaras (1995), and Castigo diving (1988), all recreate key moments in Nicaraguan history from the unique perspective of the new historical novel...My research argues that Ramirez's novels question and even attack the official version of events in Nicaraguan history. In addition to identifying the numerous traits of the new historical novel in each of the four novels, I also consider how the adoption of this particular approach affects the view of Nicaraguan history and the concept of history in general that the novels present." The author mentions that "the rapid growth of the new historical novel in Latin American literature in the last twenty years has left a dramatic mark on the works of celebrated writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Fernando del Paso, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa." Ph.D. Dissertation.