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| Record 41 of 49 |
| | Author | | Fernandez, Manuel
| | | Title | | The Detective Genre in the Post-boom: Gabriel García Márquez, Luisa Valenzuela, and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (Spanish text, Colombia, Argentina, Cuba)., Ph.D Dissertation
| | | Publisher | | The Pennsylvania State University | | | Publication place | | University Park, PA | | | Publication year | | 2001 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | "This dissertation analyzes three detective novels of the post-boom in Latin American literature. The appropriation of the genre by authors included in this study- Gabriel García Márquez, Luisa Valenzuela, and Leonardo Padura Fuentes- is, I contend, a strategic appropriation of popular culture through which various social, political, and cultural master narratives existent in Latin America are examined. The introduction first discusses how the Boom novels' self-reflexiveness led to demands for a more explicitly politically committed literature, which the appropriation of the detective genre fulfilled while continuing the Boom's preoccupation with writing's traditional support of dominant power structures in Latin America... Chapter one reveals how Crónica de una muerte anunciada by Gabriel García Márquez undermines the concept of causality. Through this questioning, the novel reflects on the arbitrary processes of exclusion through which the writing of history is made possible, a literary preoccupation that gains its political edge through detective fiction and journalism's common root in the classical-realist narrative that Crónica de una muerte anunciada critiques." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 42 of 49 |
| | Author | | Vargas, Margarita
| | | Title | | "The Origins of Identity," The Bilingual Review
| | | Publisher | | University of Arizona, Hispanic Research Center | | | Publication place | | United States | | | Publication year | | May-August 2000 | | | Page | | pp. 211-219 | | | Volume | | 25 | | | Issue | | 2 | | | Notes | | Review of Karen Christian's Origins of Identity. Vargas writes, "Even though Christian concurs with other critics that the works of Latinas and Latinos are often unjustly measured up against great Spanish American masters-Borges, Cortazar, Fuentes, and Garcia Marquez-she also concedes that in some cases the comparisons are warranted." Christian cites a number of similarities between the works of these Latina/Latino writers and those of García Márquez. | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 43 of 49 |
| | Author | | Hannan, Annika Linda
| | | Title | | The Power of Magic: Representations of Women in Selected Contemporary Magic Realist Fiction of Latin America, English Canada, and Quebec, Ph.D Dissertation
| | | Publisher | | University of Toronto | | | Publication place | | Toronto, Canada | | | Publication year | | 2003 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | "This study explores the representation of women in contemporary magic realist texts from Latin America, English Canada, and Quebec. From a feminist standpoint, it examines how men and women writers represent women characters in texts that allegorically use supernatural power to denaturalize social power. Intracultural and intercultural considerations of these New World texts reveal shared approaches, both positive and negative, to women's identities and roles. In the more progressive works - Isabel Allende's La casa de los espíritus, Jack Hodgin's The Invention of the World, Anne Hérbert's Les fous de Bassan, and Michel Tremblay's La grosse femme d" à côté est enceinte- women characters use naturalized supernaturalism (defined as the casual presence of the supernatural in the natural world) to affirm feminine subjectivity and freedom. The assumption of mythic forms or an engagement with the occult can give a female character mobility, spiritual freedom, and pleasure. But the power figuratively expressed through the supernatural is denied women in Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad, Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, Anne Hérbert's "L"ange de Dominique," and Jack Ferron's L"amélanchier. | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 44 of 49 |
| | Author | | Pérez, Jaime
| | | Title | | Twilight of the Hegemon: Images of the Dictator in the Novels of Carpentier, Roa Bastos, and García Márquez., Master
| | | Publisher | | California State University | | | Publication place | | Long Beach, CA | | | Publication year | | 2003 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | "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." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 45 of 49 |
| | Author | | Patino, Ana Mercedes
| | | Title | | Un género transgenérico: Acercamiento a una selección de cuentos de Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Gabriel García Márquez, y Augusto Monterroso, Ph.D Dissertation
| | | Publisher | | University of California, Riverside | | | Publication place | | Riverside, CA | | | Publication year | | 2000 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | "This dissertation demonstrates generic dislocation as a constant in the short fiction of three contemporary Latin American writers: Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Gabriel García Márquez, and Augusto Monterroso. In the work of these three authors, the short story does not denote a text with fixed characteristics. Rather, it indicates a textual space for diverse expressive possibilities, even though the category "short story" continues to be pertinent in its instrumental value. This analysis of stories by the mentioned authors indicates that generic subversion also nurtures a play on the boundaries among different types of writing... In the works of Gabriel García Márquez, genres played which include: the autobiography, travel books, theater programs, the police report, and oral narrative." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 46 of 49 |
| | Author | | Brescia, Pablo A J
| | | Title | | "Versiones", World Literature Today
| | | Publisher | | World Literature Today | | | Publication place | | United States | | | Publication year | | Spring 2001 | | | Page | | p. 399 | | | Volume | | 75 | | | Issue | | 2 | | | Notes | | Brescia review's Versiones, a book of essays by Juan José Barrientos. Brescia mentions that Barrientos writes an article about García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, which he entitles "An Imaginary Interview With García Márquez." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 47 of 49 |
| | Author | | Serna, Mercedes
| | | Title | | "Viaje literario por América Latina", Guaraguao
| | | Publisher | | Centro de Estudios y Cooperación para América Latina | | | Publication place | | Spain | | | Publication year | | Spring-Summer 2002 | | | Page | | pp. 202-206 | | | Volume | | 6 | | | Issue | | 14 | | | Notes | | Serna reviews Viaje literario por América Latina de Francesco Varanini (Traducción de Attilio Pentimalli) El Acantilado, Barcelona, 2000. Serna writes, "García Márquez, según Varanini, escribió Cien años de soledad de manera oral, como un juglar, con feliz abandono, siguiendo el ritmo de la voz de su abuela. Después del éxito de Cien años..., el autor describirá el Caribe como los lectores extranjeros quieren verlo. Su estilo, dice Varanini, es legendario, exagerado, novelesco, está mecanizado, como una ''máquina retórica codificada''. | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 48 of 49 |
| | Author | | Aldana, Ligia S.
| | | Title | | Violencia, raza, mito, e historia en la literatura del Caribe colombiano (Spanish text, Manuel Zapata Olivella, Alvaro Cepeda Samudio, Fanny Buitrago, Gabriel García Márquez), Ph.D Dissertation
| | | Publisher | | University of Miami | | | Publication place | | Miami, FL | | | Publication year | | 2003 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | "In this study I explore how three texts from the Colombian Caribbean challenge the notion of a consolidated nation-state and its rhetoric of complete mestizaje, late into the 20th century. With Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez as the backdrop of my analysis, I unveil the treatment of race, myth, and history respectively in the three novels and how violence shapes the meanings of these categories. The first chapter focuses on Chambacú, corral de negros (1967) by Manuel Zapata Olivella. In this chapter, I define this novel as a depository of the memory of slavery in Colombia that asserts an African heritage in the Northern Coast. At the aesthetic level, I discuss Zapata Olivella's use of social realist narrative style to articulate the identity and history of Afro-Colombians. The second chapter examines Alvaro Cepeda Samudio's La casa grande (1962) to explore the strategies he employs to recover and revise the events of the Massacre of the Banana Workers in 1928. In my reading, the massacre emerges as the first wound that causes the disarticulation of the consolidation process of the modern Colombian nation-state. The last chapter centers on Los Pañamanes (1979) by Fanny Buitrago. I define the legend of the Spanish Man, the foundational legend of the island and the text's organizing element, as a myth of origins that delineates the novel's space as a product of violence and penetration. I establish the use of myth as anti-myth to separate and divide, and to mark the difference that separates the insular space and the continental nation-state. In my conclusion, I return to Cien años de soledad to explore how processes of reception and canonization in the symbolic market are "produced" following strategies derived from the failed encounter between cultural modernism and social modernization." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 49 of 49 |
| | Author | | Waisman, Sergio
| | | Title | | "Voice-Overs: Translation and Latin American Literature", Hispanic Review
| | | Publisher | | Hispanic Review | | | Publication place | | United States | | | Publication year | | Summer 2003 | | | Page | | p.444 | | | Volume | | 71 | | | Issue | | 3 | | | Notes | | 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." | | | URL | | | |
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