Chile : Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Letras
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Library, University of Illinois
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37 : pp. 11-21
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In a critical essay, Mario Lillo P studies the infrarrealistic aspects in the novel "Mantra", by Rodrigo Fresán. He briefly mentions Gabriel García Márquez when discussing style.
Denmark : Universidad de Aarhus, Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos
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Library, University of Illinois
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11 : pp. 1-15
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Discusses the social, political and economic state of Columbia. Focuses on the fluctuations within the nation as well as cultural influences. Mentions historical figures, writers, and political figures.
Hedeen reviews four books that discuss the Latin American struggle against "neo-colonial dominance." There is a brief mention of García Márquez's being denied a travel visa.
Centeno writes about Cuba's social and political place in Latin America. One of the focuses of the article describes where power in the Cuban State comes from, and what the practices of government have lead to. He relates the state of Cuba's warlordism to Gabriel García Márquez.
John S. Christie mentions Gabriel García Márquez in his discussion of magical realism and the Latin American Boom in literature, which he states was "brought on by the unparalleled success of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude."
The article talks about violence and drugs in Columbia. Brief mention of Gabriel García Márquez as a kind of historian of Twentieth century Colombian violence.
Chile : Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Letras
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Library, University of Illinois
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37 : pp. 23-50
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This article discusses the contribution to inter-and transdisciplinary study of the "Comparatística de los Medios"(Medienkomparatistik) and emphasizes the crucial role the electronic media has to philological studies. The article focuses on Gabriel García Márquez, Hanna Schygulla and Cesare Zavattini in relation to these issues.
Read discusses Bucheli's Bananas and Business and the negative reputation the United Fruit Company has. He states that "This interpretation came early to Colombian critics after a 1928 massacre of striking workers left hundreds, maybe thousands, dead. Gabriel García Márquez exaggerated the details of this violence for One Hundred Years of Solitude, and few others have believed the company did more good than harm."
Ryan Long analyzes various aspects of Latin American social and political culture as he "reviews several books. "Letters to a Young Novelist," by Mario Vargas Llosa; "A Story Teller: Mario Vargas Llosa Between Civilization and Barbarism," by Braulio Muñoz; "Latin American Novels of the Conquest: Reinventing the New World," by Kmberle S. Lopez; "No Apocalypse, No Integration: Modernism and Postmodernism in Latin America," by Martín Hopenhayn."
"This dissertation argues that the recourse to romance in post-realist New World writing was accomplished by a reconceptualization of the figure of the author. While it is true that American romance in its first incarnation exemplified the generic norms of romance, this dissertation focuses on a later generation of romancers, self-consciously writing against realism in an attempt to return to romance. I dub this movement 'New World Romance' and hold that its primary innovation was to replace the traditional plot of romance of voyage, return, and heterosexual union with a meta-textual plot that concerns the attempted but failed return to the generic 'innocence' of traditional romance after the collapse of realism. In the process of writing back to romance, the writer sheds the figural trappings of the realist author and adopts a new identity... Finally, in Cien años de soledad Gabriel García Márquez re-imagines the encounter between reader and text as the encounter between Echo and Narcissus. Arrogating upon himself the authority to condemn the reader to perpetual longing, García Márquez becomes a kind of deity, thereby adopting a role as author that reaches beyond realism, beyond romanticism to the very origins of literature in myth and romance."