Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on 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 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, 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."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Riverside, CA : University of California, Riverside
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This dissertation demonstrates generic dislocation as a constant in the short fiction of three contemporary Latin American writers: Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Gabriel García Márquez, and Augusto Monterroso. In the work of these three authors, the short story does not denote a text with fixed characteristics. Rather, it indicates a textual space for diverse expressive possibilities, even though the category "short story" continues to be pertinent in its instrumental value. This analysis of stories by the mentioned authors indicates that generic subversion also nurtures a play on the boundaries among different types of writing... In the works of Gabriel García Márquez, genres played which include: the autobiography, travel books, theater programs, the police report, and oral narrative."
Medellín, Colombia : Editorial Universidad de Antioquia
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Castro García states that for this anthology of Colombian erotic stories he has revised 237 works, among them García Márquez's Doce cuentos peregrinos (1992) and Todos los cuentos (1977); however, these works were simply referred to and not included in his anthology.
Colombia : Fundación General de la Universidad de Salamanca, Sede Colombia
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
233 p.
Notes:
Explores how García Márquez incorporates violent imagery and themes in his work and how this depiction of violence links his narrative to conflict in contemporary Colombia. Prologue by Darío Jaramillo, p.xi-xxii.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on 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 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."
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."