Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Las Vegas, NV : University of Nevada
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"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, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Long Beach, CA : California State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"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:
2004
Published:
Boston, MA : Boston College
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"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."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
June 1, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Reed business Information
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Video Reviews; 54
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This article discusses the movie García Márquez: Un viaje al corazón de la memoria. "This documentary traces some of the influences behind Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez's work, particularly his childhood years in his hometown of Aracataca.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
February 2006
Published:
United States : Book News, Inc.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Reviews "Gabriel García Márquez" by Harold Bloom. "This volume introduces the life and work of Latin American writer Gabriel García Márquez. It features a biography of the author plus three critical essays discussing the style, tone, and structure of well-known novels such as 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and 'Love in the Time of Cholera.' The volume also contains a chronology and an extensive bibliography of works by and about Garcia Marquez."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
November 2005
Published:
United States : Book News, Inc.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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The article depicts "Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the time of cholera," edited by Harold Bloom. "This volume contains ten essays from leading critics on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera. It opens with a brief introduction by Harold Bloom (Yale U.) and concludes with a chronology. Sample topics include Garcia Marquez's ambiguous feminism, his novel's advocacy of heroic individuality, and the seductive nature of its narrative. The different representations of temporality in the novel are also explored."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
Summer 2003
Published:
United States : Hispanic Review
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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71(3) : p.444
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This is a review of the book Voice-Overs: Translation and Latin American Literature, which includes, according to Waisman, "light-toned commentaries by Cortázar and García Márquez on the difficulties and under-appreciation of translation."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
May 2003
Published:
United States : Chasqui
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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32(1) : p. 120
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This is a review of a book by Amelia Barilia, in which the author makes mention of the influence García Márquez had on the writing of Borges and Reyes.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
May 2003
Published:
United States : Chasqui
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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32(1) : p. 147-150
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This is a review of Delia Poey's book Latino American Literature in the Classroom, which mentions that Gabriel García Márquez's works are often taught as highly original texts that are representative of life in Latin America. Poey presents her opinion of this teaching style.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
Nov/Dec 2002
Published:
United States : Organization of American States
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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54(6) : p. 60-61
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Mujica reviews the book Luminous Cities by Eduardo García Aguilar. Part of the book takes place on the coast of Colombia, in the town of Riohacha. Mujica writes, "This area known for its violence and lawlessness is also the inspiration for the best loved novels of Gabriel García Márquez, whom the people venerate, along with Octavio Paz. In this beautiful but savage land, children and their teachers flock to the public library and films by García Márquez attract steady crowds. In Riohacha the juxtaposition of the magical and the commonplace that marks García Márquez's writing is just part of the landscape."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
Nov 2002
Published:
Chile : Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Letras
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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31 : p. 177-180
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Chaverri reviews María Lourdes Cortés' book Amor y tración: cine y literatura en América, in which Cortés analyzes issues related to the translation of literature to film, focusing in particular on the works of five Latin American writers who are considered part of the "Boom." She includes among them Gabriel García Márquez's Crónica de una muerte anunciada.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
May 2005
Published:
United States : University of Georgia
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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34(1) : pp. 185-188
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Foster analyzes Guerrieri's interpretation of Columbian novels in the early twentieth century. Guerrieri gives an analysis of the "Boom" era and states that authors such as García Márquez are important, but he focuses on the era prior to the phenomena.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
May 2002
Published:
United States : Chasqui
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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31(1) : pp. 146-150
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Ricci reviews "Culture and Customs of Colombia," by Raymond L. Williams and Kevin G. Gurrieri. The most recent volume is divided into eight chapters, one of which is called "Gabriel García Márquez: el escritor y el hombre."
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
June 2002
Published:
United States : Columbia Univerisity
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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55(1)
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Review of Guadalupe Fernández Ariza's book El héroe pensativo: la melancolía en Jorge Luis Borges y en Gabriel García Márquez. The book itself contains criticism and interpretations of García Márquez's work.
Secondary source, Reviews of Books About Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
United States : Latin American Studies Association
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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39(2) : pp. 155-163
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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.