Series statement from dust jacket. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction to Gabriel García Márquez / Gene H. Bell-Villada and Ignacio López-Calvo -- Part I: Sociohistorical and literary background. Scripting Gabriel García Márquez's life / Stephen M. Hart ; García Márquez and magical realism / Wendy B. Faris ; García Márquez and the Global South / Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra ; Modernization and culture in García Márquez's Caribbean / Marcela Velasco ; Gabriel García Márquez and the remaking of the world canon / Juan E. de Castro ; García Márquez and his precursors / Lois Parkinson Zamora ; Fictions of difficult love in García Márquez / Aníbal González -- Part II: Race, ethnicity, and gender. Imagining the Afro-Caribbean in García Márquez's fiction / Adelaida López-Mejía ; Amerindian Wayúu legacy and Garciamarquezian literary fable / Juan Moreno Blanco ; The power of women in Gabriel García Márquez's world / Nadia Celis-Salgado -- Part III: Worldwide influences and legacy. García Márquez in Africa / Regina Janes ; The Arabs and Gabriel García Márquez / Heba El Attar ; García Márquez in China / Teng Wei ; South Asian readings of Gabriel García Márquez / Sonya Surabhi Gupta and Shad Naved ; One hundred years of solitude and its influence in Japan / Gonzalo Robledo ; Spain in the making and reception of García Márquez's works / Álvaro Santana-Acuña -- Part IV: Key themes and leitmotifs. Myth and poetry in Macondo / Mercedes López-Baralt ; Style and surprise in García Márquez / Michael Wood ; García Márquez's global travel writing beyond the Iron Curtain, 1955-1959 / Mariano Siskind ; Dark ecology in One hundred years of solitude and Love in the time of cholera / William Flores ; Repetition and alchemy in One hundred years of solitude / René Prieto ; Music as formal and signifying feature in García Márquez's mature fiction / Gene H. Bell-Villada and Marco Katz Montiel ; Coloniality and solitude in García Márquez's public speeches and newspaper articles / Ignacio López-Calvo -- Part V: Key works. Writing and politics in García Márquez's early works / María Helena Rueda ; The protean viewpoint in One hundred years of solitude / Erik Camayd-Freixas ; Monstrous innocence and its expression in García Márquez's tales / Mary Lusky Friedman ; Fate and free will in Chronicle of a death foretold / Philip Swanson ; Pathology, power, and patriarchy in The autumn of the patriarch and The general in his labyrinth / Helene C. Weldt-Basson ; Modernity and its ruins in Of love and other demons / Nereida Segura-Rico ; The later work of Gabriel García Márquez / Nicholas Birns ; The three-fold selves in García Márquez's writing / Robert Sims ; The filmic literary works of Gabriel García Márquez / Alessandro Rocco.
Summary:
"García Márquez's writing is a literary order that will continue to be read, studied, and learned so long as there are practitioners, students, and lovers of literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude, of course, is admired by millions across the world, from high-school students to major novelists such as Salman Rushdie and the late Toni Morrison. The Oxford Handbook of Gabriel García Márquez takes a broad overview of the life and oeuvre of "Gabo" (as he is affectionately known throughout Latin America) and examines them thoroughly. The volume incorporates ongoing critical approaches such as feminism, ecocriticism, Marxism, and ethnic studies, as well as signalling such key aspects of García Márquez's work, as his Caribbean-Colombian background; his use of magical realism, myth, and folklore; and his left-wing political positions. Thirty-two wide-ranging chapters by a diverse and international group of experts deal with the bulk of the author's writings-both major and minor, early and late, long and short-as well as his involvement with film. They also give due attention to the central roles played by romantic love, by his prose style, and by the various kinds of music in his literary art. Particularly worth of mention are the contributors' extensive discussions of the world-wide artistic impact of García Márquez-on established canons, on the Global South, on imaginative writing in South Asia, China, Japan, and throughout Africa and the Arab world. More than a Latin American author, he truly qualifies as a global phenomenon. This is the first book on García Márquez that places the Colombian within that wider context" -- Provided by publisher.
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