Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This dissertation analyzes three detective novels of the post-boom in Latin American literature. The appropriation of the genre by authors included in this study- Gabriel García Márquez, Luisa Valenzuela, and Leonardo Padura Fuentes- is, I contend, a strategic appropriation of popular culture through which various social, political, and cultural master narratives existent in Latin America are examined. The introduction first discusses how the Boom novels' self-reflexiveness led to demands for a more explicitly politically committed literature, which the appropriation of the detective genre fulfilled while continuing the Boom's preoccupation with writing's traditional support of dominant power structures in Latin America... Chapter one reveals how Crónica de una muerte anunciada by Gabriel García Márquez undermines the concept of causality. Through this questioning, the novel reflects on the arbitrary processes of exclusion through which the writing of history is made possible, a literary preoccupation that gains its political edge through detective fiction and journalism's common root in the classical-realist narrative that Crónica de una muerte anunciada critiques."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"The Ends of Literature analyzes the part played by literature within contemporary Latin American thought and politics, above all, the politics of neoliberalism. The "why?" of contemporary Latin American literature is the book's over-arching concern. Its wide range includes close readings of the prose of Cortázar, Carpentier, Paz, Valenzuela, Piglia, and Las Casas, of the relationship of the "Boom" movement and its aftermath, of testimonial narrative, and of contemporary Chilean and Chicano film. The work also investigates in detail various theoretical projects as they intersect with and emerge from Latin American scholarship: cultural studies, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies." This book focuses on the era of the Boom, where García Márquez and Julio Cortázar are prominent.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Tampa, FL : University of South Florida
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"A thematic analysis of three major collections of short fiction by René Marqués, as well as a comparative analysis of the fiction of selected works by Marqués and texts by four major writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Mitchell. This study demonstrates the ways in which the literature of Puerto Rico shares a literary tradition with both the United States and Latin America. Topics include a discussion of how the three short story collections and two novels function as a whole, citing important unifying themes such as Man's isolation, power and (Foucault's definition of) resistance, and the emergence of perspectivism, as well as how selected texts by Marqués relate to themes in major works of American and Latin American literature, such as the supernatural in Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' love and war in Mitchell's 'Gone with the Wind' The Ice identity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Ice Palace' and setting and magic in García Márquez' novels, especially 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.' 'The New Puerto Rican-American Literature in Spanish, Volume 1 also questions why the literature of Puerto Rico, and in this case specifically the fiction of René Marqués, is extremely difficult to access outside the island. Only a few major research universities possess even a partial collection, making teaching, research and scholarship highly challenging. Included is a detailed account of the four-year long research process which finally yielded all materials. In conjunction with limited availability, the study offers additional reasons why there has not been an abundance of scholarship produced by and for the English-speaking academic community . One proposed explanation is that there is a pronounced fear of accepting Spanish as a major language of the United States. The study concludes that literature written in Spanish, in the continental United States and Puerto Rico, should be included in the curriculum of both English and Spanish departments as Puerto Rican-American literature."
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, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
Louisiana, United States : Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
178 p.
Notes:
(Abstract) "Both William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez introduce the olfactory as a focal element in their writing, producing works that challenge the singular primacy of sight as the unrivaled means by which the New World might be understood...their fictional olfactory situations and language establish a critique of the modern era, of an all-too-Cartesian modernity in the world, and point to a new poetics specifically for the New World, where there might still be hope for the memory and the promise of a land that is 'fresh from the hand of God.'" Ph.D. Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
Connecticut, United States : Southern Connecticut State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
90 p.
Notes:
(Abstract) "In One Hundred Years of Solitude, the character development of the mater familias protagonist Ursula Iguarán along with her daughter, Amaranta Buendía and her daughter-in-law Rebeca Buendía are analyzed critically and theoretically through textual references and criticism...What we find are independent, desirable women subjects whose energetic determination empowers them and the society in which they live." M.A. Dissertation.
Viewed on 27 March, 2008. Also available at http://www.ciudadseva.com/textos/teoria/opin/ggm4.htm.
In this article, García Márquez discusses the origins of storytelling.
San Juan, Puerto Rico : Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Originally presented as the author's Master's thesis. Could be used as a guide for reading Crónica de una muerte anunciada. Contains an extensive bibliography.
Jesús Humberto Florencia, Luis María Quintana Tejera, and Olga Sigüenza Ponce
Format:
Secondary source, Books on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
México, DF., México : Plaza y Valdés
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
This book contains the following: "Prólogo" (pp. 1-9); "El mito del otoño del gran padre latinoamericano," by Jesús Humberto Florencia Zaldívar (pp. 17-40); "El olor de las almendras amargas. Ensayo de interpretación del universo narrativo de El amor en los tiempos del cólera," by Luis Quintana Tejera (pp. 41-70); "Amores contrariados, domésticos y fatales, amores realizados. El amor en los tiempos del cólera," by Luis Quintana Tejera (pp. 71-100); "Elementos estilísticos en Doce cuentos peregrinos," by Olga Sigüenza Ponce (pp. 101-166); and "Reflexiones finales" (p. 167).