Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Las Vegas, NV : University of Nevada
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"By redefining social or economic "classes" as cultures, or as Raymond Williams explains, groups that share a "structure of feeling," the dissertation defines power in accordance with the shared values, beliefs, attitudes, and practices defined by the culture of persistence and the culture of wealth. With culturally determined definitions of power in place, the dissertation argues for a broader understanding of female power as the power is accessed and wielded by female characters in the writings of Willa Cather, Gabriel García Márquez, and Dorothy Allison. Engaging the strategies of feminist geographies employed, critics including Doreen Massey, Gillian Rose, and the Women and Geography Study Group, the dissertation analyzes the methods by which female characters negotiate successes or failures in accessing and wielding power."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
29, 82
Notes:
"As a non-realist writer from Spanish America, Borges ended up associated with Gabriel García Márquez and Juan Rulfo, writers both so different in style to Borges and, more important, so very involved in their own local realities, that one wonders whether the people making these comments ever compared these writers at all, or merely assumed a commonality among them based solely on geographical contiguity." (p. 29)
"One of the most recurrent themes in Latin-American literature is that of dictatorship. And maybe the character that obsesses writers the most is the dictator. The return time and time again of literary texts about this subject appears to be no more than the persistent reflection in the history of Latin America of a phenomenon and a figure that, like the patriarch of García Márquez, resist death." -Jorge Scherman Filer.