Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Valencia, Spain : Quaderns Digitals
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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On November 5, 2003, El Centro Americano PEN and Alfred A. Knopf will present Gabriel García Márquez with a literary tribute. The participants include the following authors: Paul Auster, Salman Rushdie, Jon Lee Anderson, Edwidge Danticat, Francisco Goldman, William Kennedy, José Manuel Prieto, Rose Styron, the translator Edith Grossman, and Jaime Abello, director of the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, which was founded by García Márquez.
Brown, Charles (author) and Lehtola, Carol (author)
Format:
Guide
Publication Date:
2003-04
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05937
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CIR 1438, one of a series of Florida AgSafe, a program of the Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville. 9 pages., Guidelines for creating a community-based safety workshop.
"In critical theory, representation is often linked to the development of social themes that endorse violence, but its potential as a means to process the effects of violence is not always examined. This dissertation studies how textual representation can transform violence into a force that consolidates the affective and normative structures of a community. In the works studied here, violence is portrayed as a destructive and frightening phenomenon, but also as an experience of survival that strengthens communal ties. My analysis is based on theories of the nation as an entity constructed through narratives of violence, and my focus is Colombia, a country with a conflictive process of national consolidation. Precisely for that reason, Colombia has for years invoked its subsistence as a nation through textual representation. Few nations have originated so much public representation of their violence as Colombia, both for local and global audiences. The corpus of this dissertation is comprised of textual narratives written by Colombian authors from various perspectives and in different styles. Works included here are a textbook compiled in 1910 to teach national history in secondary schools, a sociological study of violence as a national problem from 1962, two early novels by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, two compilations of testimonial narratives, by Alfredo Molano and Patricia Lara, a novel by Fernando Vallejo and another by Laura Restrepo. Some of these texts emphasize a call for social involvement and others a reflection on the social effects of violence, in both practical and mythical terms. All of them have in common the reference to violence as an experience of survival, linked to the idea of national community. They register the disruptions, the fear, and the pain provoked by violence, bearing witness to the desire for a social order that would not include it, only possible through a new process of representation. The main conclusion of my analysis is that although textual representation can be an ally or an indirect supporter of social structures that promote violence, it also had the potential to be the means for the development of alternatives to these same structures."
Barranquilla, Colombia : Universidad del Atlántico
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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4(14)
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Originally published in La Casa de Asterión. Revista virtual de Estudios Literarios. Barranquilla, Colombia. Universidad del Atlántico. v. 4, no. 14 (July-September, 2003)
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Boston, MA : The Christian Science Publishing Society
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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14
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"Márquez's latest book, first published in Spanish last year, is an international bestseller. According to Publishers Weekly, it has broken all sales records throughout the Spanish-speaking world." -Carduff
Lionel C. Carrasco, Rossana Fuentes-Berain, and Roberto Martínez Illescas
Format:
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
102-115
Notes:
The authors mention Gabriel García Márquez as a comparison from his story, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, in which everybody knows that the main character, José, is going to die, but nobody prevents it. The authors compare this to the survival of Latin America via networks.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
New York, NY : The New York Times Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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3 Late edition Final Section A Column 1
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Commenting on the newest generation of novelists from Colombia, Forero states that Jorge Franco's two latest novels contain no hint of magical realism, the style of outlandish imagery that Mr. García Márquez made famous. Instead, Franco deals with a female assassin in a drug-fueled world in Rosario Tijeras, and the struggles of Colombian immigrants in New York in Paraiso Travel. The basis of this article is how the new wave of Latin American authors have strayed away from the style of García Márquez and formed a new wave. "The long shadow of Gabriel García Márquez has begun to fade."
