Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22572
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Reuters release obtained online via Food Safety Network. 1 page., Cites forestry researcher who reports that many countries are wasting millions of dollars planting trees because of myths that forests help improve water flows and offset erosion.
Ryan Long analyzes various aspects of Latin American social and political culture as he "reviews several books. "Letters to a Young Novelist," by Mario Vargas Llosa; "A Story Teller: Mario Vargas Llosa Between Civilization and Barbarism," by Braulio Muñoz; "Latin American Novels of the Conquest: Reinventing the New World," by Kmberle S. Lopez; "No Apocalypse, No Integration: Modernism and Postmodernism in Latin America," by Martín Hopenhayn."
"This dissertation argues that the recourse to romance in post-realist New World writing was accomplished by a reconceptualization of the figure of the author. While it is true that American romance in its first incarnation exemplified the generic norms of romance, this dissertation focuses on a later generation of romancers, self-consciously writing against realism in an attempt to return to romance. I dub this movement 'New World Romance' and hold that its primary innovation was to replace the traditional plot of romance of voyage, return, and heterosexual union with a meta-textual plot that concerns the attempted but failed return to the generic 'innocence' of traditional romance after the collapse of realism. In the process of writing back to romance, the writer sheds the figural trappings of the realist author and adopts a new identity... Finally, in Cien años de soledad Gabriel García Márquez re-imagines the encounter between reader and text as the encounter between Echo and Narcissus. Arrogating upon himself the authority to condemn the reader to perpetual longing, García Márquez becomes a kind of deity, thereby adopting a role as author that reaches beyond realism, beyond romanticism to the very origins of literature in myth and romance."
María José Navia discusses the work by Margarita Saona. Saona describes and analyzes the relationship between the novel and the nation in contemporary Latin American literature. Navia notes that the first chapters of Saona's work are dedicated to the writings of Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, and José Donoso.
"According to many testimonies, like García Márquez's exact contemporary the Mexican Carlos Fuentes or the Colombian critic many years younger than both, Michael Palencia Roth, 'Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)' is the one novel where Latin Americans recognize themselves instantly: their own social, cultural reality, their families, and the history of their countries. It is also the mirror in which a generation of Europeans and North Americans, by the millions, since its publication, have discovered the magical reality of an exotic continent, and a taste for its hallucinatory literature. Are they reading the same novel?"
This article reviews the book "Look Away! The U.S. South in New world Studies" edited by Jon Smith and Demorah Cohn. On page 1202 the author states "Smith and Cohn insist on refuting García Márquez's assimilation of the U.S. South into the Caribbean, arguing for the insoluble differences of the two spaces (7); Handley reminds us of how little we actually know of the historical traumas that underwrite such claims in the first place."
Barranquilla Colombia : Fundación Cultural Nueva Música: La Iguana Ciega
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Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Gabriel García Márquez is mentioned various times through out the book, specifically on pages 17, 24, 69, 70, 76, 82, 91, 92, 94, 98, 102, and 110-114.
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