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2. "Opiniones de un lector," Palabra de América
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Santiago Gamboa
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 75-81
- Notes:
- Gamboa expresses his opinions on magic realism, how it has developed, and how it has been taken in by the youth. He notes the importance of Gabriel García Márquez in revolutionizing with magic realism as a literary form, as well as the significance of his most important followers, for example, Isabel Allende.
3. "Herencia, ruptura y desencanto," Palabra de América
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Jorge Franco
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 38-46
- Notes:
- Franco writes on how the new generation of Latin American authors have been influenced by the greats such as Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Octavio Paz and José Donoso.
4. "Epílogo: Para otra posible "Salutación del optimista,"" Palabra de América
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Pere Gimferrer
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 225-227
- Notes:
- Starting in 1967, an industrial editorial center and sociological alternative to Franco-based Madrid, is produced in Barcelona. A flourishing cultural movement that attracts renown authors from Latin America, some of whom establish their residency in this city. Others will receive the Premio Biblioteca Breve, and others will link themselves to Seix Barral. Amongst the authors to establish residency in Madrid is Gabriel García Márquez.
5. "McOndo y el crack: Dos experiencias grupales," Palabra de América
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Ignacio Padilla
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 136-139
- Notes:
- In his passion to analyze what he believes is a substantial period for writing, Padilla produces a story about crack in three-and-a-half chapters, as well as a long essay against magical realism which he has no intention to publish. Padilla continues to analyze how this manifestation of crack and McOndo came about.
6. "El fin de la narrativa latinoamericana," Palabra de América
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Jorge Volpi
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 206- 219
- Notes:
- Volpi analyzes the boom in Latin American literature, presenting the most reknown writers: Cortázar, Fuentes, Vargas Llosa, and García Márquez, among others. Also published in Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana vol. 30 no. 59 Jan-June 2004 pg. 33-42.
7. "Fuerzas centrífugas y centrípetas," Palabra de América
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Mario Mendoza
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 123-127
- Notes:
- Mendoza mentions Vargas Llosa's book García Márquez: Historia de un deicidio, in which Vargas Llosa analyzes García Márquez's development of the forces which drove him to write and to create Macondo.
8. "No quiero que a mí me lean como a mis antepasados," Palabra de América
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Fernando Iwasaki
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 104-111
- Notes:
- Iwasaki strongly states his desire not to be compared with anybody and insists that no author wants to be compared to authors such as Vargas Llosa, García Márquez, Fuentes, and Cortázar, among others. In other words, today's authors will not be the same as these great artists from the past, and it is harder for new authors to become world-renown because of the expectations that they have to fulfill.
9. Dictators, Directives, Tyranical Figures, and Cultural Discourse: Jorge Zalamea, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Peter Anthony Neissa
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on 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 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 items in order to represent its own culture and nature of reality. When translated into a different language, culture-specific items created a conflict of meaning between the original text and the translated text. This discord arises because the translated reference no longer conveys its original message. The original significance has been substituted in the translated text for a new meaning determined by the dictator or translators ideology, usage, or the untranslable nature of the original words. These culturally loaded words are categorized into three areas of language defines relationships of power and resistance between a dictator and his nation, or between one culture and another, such as the United States over Latin American Culture. The analysis of culture-specific items presented in this dissertation will provide an understanding of how language functions as an instrument for the imposition to gain or maintain power in 'El Gran Burundú-Burundá ha muerto', 'El otoño del patriarca', and 'La fiesta del Chivo.' Culture-specific items also suggest how translators may substitute the values of the source culture in the original text for their own cultural biases when translating from Spanish to English."
10. The Central Importance of Temporality in the Fiction of Gabriel García Márquez
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Anthony Patterson
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Dominguez Hills, CA : California State University
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Notes:
- “There have been various interpretations of the work of García Márquez. However, no detailed study has been made of the huge significance of temporality to his art. This thesis argues that García Márquez’ novels are complex considerations of humankind’s relation to time, and that time is an inherent and constitutive property of the art and meaning of his texts. To demonstrate the validity of this proposition this thesis examines structure, strategy and thematic concern and their interrelation in relation to temporality. It is, thus, divided into five sections: a brief introductory contextualization of recent critical debate concerning the relationship between temporality and narrative; an analysis of the temporal structure of García Márquez’ most important novels and how this relates to the overall meaning of his specific consideration of the temporal narrative strategies that García Márquez adopts and why these are significant to an understanding of his work; an evaluation of temporal themes in García Márquez and their centrality to his work; and a concluding section which examines the interrelation between structure, strategy and theme to demonstrate the crucial importance of temporality to a comprehensive understanding of the fiction of García Márquez.”
11. Speaking Time: Intersections of Literature and Chronosophy
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Veronica Browning
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Washington, DC : University of Washington
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Notes:
- "This dissertation takes a chronosophical approach to literary study, addressing the changing ways thinkers have chosen to articulate the nature of time, and examining in particular literary works which take on time as a theme. Chronosophy is not science; it does not belong to the arts; it is not religion. Ideas of time belong nowhere but infuse everything. In order even to say this, we must speak in time, as one word necessarily comes before another, reinforcing through language an idea of temporal linearity in which Einstein proclaimed to be an illusion, albeit our most persistent one. The achievement of a remove from which one might find understanding, and Archimedian view from nowhere, has been one of the greatest projects in the history of knowledge. This dissertation discusses literary attempts to find a view from nowhen. In tracing attempts to articulate and represent time, and how those efforts have informed shifting perceptions of time found in literary works, chapter one discusses patterns of chronosophical inquiry from ancient times to Dante, focusing in particular on those ides of time which survive today. Dante Alighieri mathematically encoded a discussion of temporal contingency and ineffability into the numeric structure of his Divine Comedy. Chapter two discusses his use of Pythagorean theories in his attempts as a finite mortal bound to temporal succession to articulate a literary representation of eternity. Chapter three discusses the impact of Einstein's Relativity theory under which simultaneity in time can no longer exist, during period of invention when paradoxically a new sense of simultaneity became prominent feature of popular culture, and time was increasingly described not as a property of the world, but a property of the perceivers of the world. This chapter traces Futurist reactions to changing ideas of temporality and the variations and manipulations of time in James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. Chapter four discusses Jorge Luis Borges' idea of temporality as an arrangement of sympathies and differences, and examines temporality in the magic realist movement as represented by Gabriel García Márquez in 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' where a temporality dependant upon individual perspective becomes lonely prospect."
12. Ecluses, suivi de, La narration multiple dans le roman: 'Des feuille dans la bourrasque' de Gabriel García Márquez
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Melisandre Gibbs
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Montreal, Canada : McGill University
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Notes:
- "There are several ways of utilizing the plurality of narrative instances in a novel; the 'stereoscopic view,' which presents an object through the lens of several perceptions, is one of these ways. This is the case of 'Des feuilles dans la bourrasque (La Hojarasca), Gabriel García Marquez's first novel, which will be the center of our reflection on multiple narratives. We will study the structure of the novel through the notion of 'parallx' which implies the fragmentation of the object by the marginalization of each one its points of view. However, it is by revealing the 'stereoscopic' character of the novel with multiple narratives that the apparent lack of cohesion of the text will be qualified. The study will conclude with the following question: Does the structure of a novel with multiple narratives raise an ethical concern? 'Ecluses' is a story in five tempos, composed of five chronologically isolated short stories, which are interconnected by a context of common events and characters. The narrative of each of these short stories is supported by a distinct character. Nevertheless, it is the sum of the characters' perceptions, due to the active participation of the reader who has the role of making the different points of view converse, that the story to takes shape and goes forward."
13. The New Puerto Rican-American Literature in Spanish, Volume 1: Beyond Politics and Displeasure in the Fiction of René Marqués
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Kimberly Wasserman
- Format:
- 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."
14. Fallen Statues: De-monumentalization in the Spanish American Historical Novel of the Late Twentieth Century
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- José Antonio Alvarez
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Austin, TX : University of Texas at Austin
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Notes:
- "The Spanish-American historical novels of the late twentieth century have shown a marked tendency to feature as their main characters many of the greatest historical figures of the region. Even though there have been a growing number of worthy literary studies about the historical figures portrayed in these novels, they have generally centered on a given historical character in one or more historical novels. There is a need for a comprehensive approach to the study of the great historical characters that are profiled in the New and Traditional Spanish-American Historical Novel. This dissertation is devoted to the literary analysis and conceptualization of the great historical characters that appear in contemporary Spanish-American historical novels. The study aims to formulate a comprehensive literary theory that seeks to explain the presence of great historical figures in the Contemporary Spanish-American Historical Novel. This dissertation is multidisciplinary in nature, involving research in literature historiography, monumental sculpture and iconography. The central thesis of this dissertation is that there are a significant number of great historical figures that are 'de-monumentalized' or debunked as cult figures in the historical novels of the region. The first chapter if the dissertation demonstrates the central thesis by profiling and discussing in depth a wide range of new and traditional historical novels that de-monumentalize their heroic characters. Chapter I formulates the theory of 'De-monumentalization in the Spanish-American Historical Novel.' The Chapter addresses the fundamental question of what does it mean to de-monumetalize a historical cult figure, and which ones can be de-monumentalized in a contemporary historical novel. Chapter I advances three distinct modes of De-monumentalization. Three outstanding historical novels and their main characters represent these modes. Chapter II of the dissertation illustrates how Simón Bolívar is de-monumentalized in 'El general en su laberinto' (1989) by Gabriel García Márquez. Chapter III analyzes the de-monumentalization of Benito Juárez in Fernando del Paso's 'Noticias del Imperio' (1987. Chapter IV examines how Cuba's pantheon of heroes (José Martí, Antonio Maces, ect.) is de-monumentalized in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's 'Vista del amanecer en el trópico' (1974). Chapter V presents the conclusions that were reached in this doctoral project.