"Drawing upon the author's experiences of growing up white and gay in apartheid South Africa, this collection of personal essays explores themes of kitsch, displacement, love, sexuality, and forgiveness. A central question posed by the work is whether virtues such as love and forgiveness are worth the cost they frequently exact. These costs include, but are not limited to, denial of the self and individual perception in order to make possible a sense of profound union with other persons. In the end the dissertation concludes that it is best to accept a level of permanent and irrevocable yearning for connection and healing which human life will never entirely fulfill." Gabriel García Márquez is mentioned in the dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
San Diego State University : San Diego State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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73 leaves
Notes:
Leamy writes, "In tying together Joyce's concept of paralysis with García Márquez's obsession with solitude, I hope to demonstrate how religion plays a definitive role in creating the forces that drove two of the twentieth centuries [sic] most celebrated authors." (4)
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
Ohio, United States : Ohio State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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262 p.
Notes:
(Abstract) "Alejo Carpentier's theory of 'lo real maravilloso americano' gave shape to the 'interpretative community' of the Latin American 'Boom'--which dovetailed authors such as Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Julio Cortázar among others. Like a boomerang sent into the future, this identity 'propuesta de significado,' or proposition of meaning, was thought to be miraculously embodied by the Cuban Revolution...The transnational cross-border encounters of the 'Boom' shaped and contributed to a (post)modernization of the Spanish 'imaginario patrio' and induced a feeling of anxiety that revolutionized the relations between Spanish authors and 'their' inherited tradition and language." Ph.D Dissertation
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.”
East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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1(3) : 87-116
Notes:
"After investigating the structure of the post-colonial dialectics promulgated in pan-American studies in the 1990's, I turn to a set of case studies of American authors, aiming to provide comparative accounts that are differentiating as well as synthetic. I consider how the subversive narrative work attributed to Gabriel García Márquez, a model for many pan-Americanist examinations of resistance discourse, can also be found in the work of archetypal "colonialist writer" Jorge Luis Borges, the villain of many post-colonial considerations of the hemisphere. Turning to North America, I compare two writers often placed alongside García Márquez, borderland authors Thomás Rivera and Rolando Hinojosa, investigating the subtle distinctions in cultural work that set them apart not only from García Márquez, but also from one another."