Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
United States : Latin American Studies Association
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
39(2) : pp. 155-163
Notes:
Reviews "Before and after the Boom: Recent Scholarship on Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies," by Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez. Discusses the chapters in the work dedicated to "Boom" writers such as Gabriel García Márquez.
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."