Washington : Center for Strategic and International Studies Georgetown University
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Library, University of Illinois
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25(3) : 123-134
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This article discusses many different things about Colombia; in the section titled "A Nation in Spite of Itself" the author states, "A common Colombian culture is unmistakable. With great self-confidence, Colombians claim to speak better Spanish than the Spanish. Regional differences certainly exist. Folklore, song, and dance styles differ by region but are honored widely. The screechy rhythms of vallenato country music from the northeast (think bluegrass), now lead the national charts. Novelist and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez and world-renowned painter and sculptor Fernando Botero are national unifiers. Recent Grammy winner Shakira is a great source of national pride." The author also references two of Márquez's works, "El general en su laberinto" and "News of a Kidnapping" in his notes.
3) Spanish and other European immigrants that were encouraged to settle in Cuba as per attempts to "bleach" the island. This was the first time anything like this was seriously proposed since Haiti earned its independence. This is important to note because the "spectre" of Haiti loomed ominously over Spanish and Cuban whites for a century and most of their policies towards Cuba's Blacks were reflective of it. The following year, the Cuban Ward Connerly of his day, Martin Morúa Delgado was elected Speaker in Cuba's Senate. The year after that, Morúa introduced legislation that became known as the Morúa Amendment and it outlaws the PIC because is was based on race and racism was supposedly eradicated in Cuba. Just before the vote was taken to enact this bill into law, Estonez and other PIC leaders were imprisoned and were kept in jail until after the law was passed.
Fredinán discusses the difficulty that true surrealism has faced in Latin America, in large part because of Latin American writers' "compromiso social." He writes, "Creo que el deseo de remover la incompatibilidad entre su escritura y su postura política fue, al menos en parte, lo que llevó a García Márquez a reescribir el final de Cien años de soledad cuando recibió el Premio Nobel."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
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Bogotá, Colombia : Panamericana Editorial, Ancora Editores
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Library, University of Illinois
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89-122
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Previously published by Oveja Negra, 1982. "The majority of these fifteen articles with nine Latin American authors have been made in Europe in the last five years. Some are very old: for example, the article about the three days in which Mario Vargas Llosa experienced public harrassment in Bogotá is from 1967; Ernesto Sábato's encounter with Alejandra in Manzinales is from 1970S the chronicles on the solitude of glory of Gabriel García Márquez in Cartagena; and the awarding of his prize "Romulo Gallegos" in Caracas was from 1971-72. All try to show in the most reasonable way the private and public images of the primary contemporary Latin American writers."
Chile : El rebelde de la burguesía, la historia de Miguel Enríquez
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Library, University of Illinois
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1(1) : pp. 201-203
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Reviews "El rebelde de la burguesía, la historia de Miguel Enríquez" by Daniel Avendaño y Mauricio Palma. Briefly mentions the cultural and social influences of the 1960's including Gabriel García Márquez.
