Gabriel García Márquez in Retrospect

A Collection

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2016
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3338-6 (ISBN)

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect provides a multifaceted, backward glance at García Márquez and his output as a writer. The essays examine his cultural background and influence, take a close look at One Hundred Years of Solitude as well as at several of his later works, and consider his relationship to film and theater.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian author’s total body of work, along with closer looks at some of his acknowledged masterpieces. The Nobel laureate’s cultural contexts and influences, his variety of themes, and his formidable legacy (Hispanic, U.S., world-wide) all come up for consideration. New readings of One Hundred Years of Solitude are further complemented by fresh, stimulating, highly detailed examinations of his later novels (Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Of Love and Other Demons) and stories (Strange Pilgrims). Further attention is focused on “Gabo’s” labors as journalist and as memoirist (Living to Tell the Tale), and to his sometime relationships with the cinema and the stage. Reactions to his enormous stature on the part of younger writers, including recent signs of backlash, are also given thoughtful scrutiny. Feminist and ecocritical interpretations, plus lively discussions of Gabo’s artful use of humor, character’s names, and even cuisine, are to be found here as well. In the wake of García Márquez’s passing away in 2014, this collection of essays serves as a fitting tribute to one of the world’s greatest literary figures of the twentieth century.

Gene H. Bell-Villada is professor of Romance languages at Williams College.

Introduction. García Márquez: His Vast Range, His Varied Legacy
Gene H. Bell-Villada
Part One. Oeuvre, Backgrounds, Legacy
1. García Márquez: Writer for the World
Nicholas Birns and Juan De Castro
2. Politics and Death across the Life of Writing
Regina Janes
3. Translation and Apprenticeship
Edith Grossman
4. García Márquez and mamagallismo: On Fatigued Roosters, Resistance, Sense of Humor, and the Colombian Personality
Marcela Velasco
Part Two. Re-reading the History of Macondo
5. Names and Narrative Pattern in One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gene H. Bell-Villada
6. The Enlightened Blindness of Úrsula Iguarán
María del Mar López-Cabrales
7. Satire, Ecocentrism, and Luddite Discourse in One Hundred Years of Solitude: Regional Approaches for a Global Environmental Crisis
William Flores
8. Rediscovering Ice: García Márquez, Aira, and Vallejo on Childhood Memories
Héctor HoyosPart Three. Later Works
9. After the End: Bolívar in the Labyrinth of History
Michael Wood
10. The Magic of Love, the

Erscheinungsdatum	29.11.2016
Co-Autor	Rudyard Alcocer, Nicholas Birns, Juan De Castro, William Flores
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 238 mm
Gewicht	630 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4985-3338-8 / 1498533388
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-3338-6 / 9781498533386
Zustand	Neuware