Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect (eBook)

A Collection

Gene H. Bell-Villada (Herausgeber)

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2016
288 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3339-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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 "e;Gabo's"e; 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 Garcia Marquez'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.

Autor

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

Inhalt

Introduction. García Márquez: His Vast Range, His Varied LegacyGene H. Bell-VilladaPart One. Oeuvre, Backgrounds, Legacy1. García Márquez: Writer for the WorldNicholas Birns and Juan De Castro2. Politics and Death across the Life of WritingRegina Janes3. Translation and ApprenticeshipEdith Grossman4. García Márquez and mamagallismo: On Fatigued Roosters, Resistance, Sense of Humor, and the Colombian PersonalityMarcela VelascoPart Two. Re-reading the History of Macondo5. Names and Narrative Pattern in One Hundred Years of SolitudeGene H. Bell-Villada6. The Enlightened Blindness of Úrsula IguaránMaría del Mar López-Cabrales7. Satire, Ecocentrism, and Luddite Discourse in One Hundred Years of Solitude: Regional Approaches for a Global Environmental CrisisWilliam Flores8. Rediscovering Ice: García Márquez, Aira, and Vallejo on Childhood MemoriesHéctor HoyosPart Three. Later Works9. After the End: Bolívar in the Labyrinth of HistoryMichael Wood10. The Magic of Love, the Horrors of Death, and Other Themes in the Short Stories of García Márquez by Rubén Pelayo11. Gastronomical PilgrimsFernando Valerio-Holguín12. Reading Illness in Gabriel García Márquez’s Of Love and Other DemonsOlivia Vázquez-Medina13. Magical Realism as a Simple Tool to Elicit Humor in Of Loveand Other Demons Ignacio López-CalvoPart Four. Other Genres, Other Media14. The Permutations of the Fictional, Non-Fictional, and Autobiographical ‘I’ in the works of Gabriel García Márquez Robert L. Sims15. Doomed from the Start: Big-Screen Adaptations of Two García Márquez Novels Rudyard Alcocer and Haley Osborn16. Remembering Broadway’s Chronicle of a Death ForetoldZhanna Gurvich

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.11.2016
• Co-Autor: Rudyard Alcocer, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo, Haley Osborn, Ruben Pelayo, Robert L. Sims, Fernando Valerio-Holguin, Olivia Vazquez-Medina, Marcela Velasco, Michael Wood, Nicholas Birns, Juan De Castro, William Flores, Edith Grossman, Zhanna Gurvich, Hector Hoyos, Regina Janes, Maria del Mar Lopez-Cabrales
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Caribbean Studies • Colombia • Ecocriticism • Feminism • Gabriel Garcia Marquez • Latin American literature • magical realism
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3339-6 / 1498533396
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3339-3 / 9781498533393