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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 21. )Magical realism is a unique literary style that developed among Latin American writers. The term "magical realism" was coined in 1925 by Franz Roh, a German art critic who was trying to describe a visual response to the...
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From:Literature of Developing Nations for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literature of Developing Nations (Vol. 1. )Brent has a Ph.D. in American culture, with a specialization in film studies, from the University of Michigan. She is a freelance writer and teaches courses in the history of American cinema. In the following essay,...
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From: The Emergence of the Latin American Novel(essay date 1977) An English critic, translator, and educator who specializes in Latin American studies, Brotherston is the author of Spanish American Modernista Poets: A Critical Anthology (1968) and The Emergence of...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionWritten between his first major novels, Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) and El otoño del patriarca (The Autumn of the Patriarch), "Un señor muy viejo con alas enormes" ("A Very Old Man with Enormous...
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From:Literature of Developing Nations for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literature of Developing Nations (Vol. 2. )García Márquez often wryly denies that his works are magical, fantastic, or surrealistic: "It always amuses me that the highest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single...
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From:Nonfiction Classics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Nonfiction Works (Vol. 3. )Like The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (1986), a piece of journalism that was later adapted into book form, News of a Kidnapping (1997) chronicles actual events that, at first glance, may read as fiction. The book...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 16. )In "The Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock," Gabriel García Márquez invites his reader into a private exchange between two people who enjoy a strange sort of familiarity. José, the restaurant owner, has "almost come to...
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From: Gabriel García MárquezAt a time of dire predictions about the future of the novel, García Márquez's prodigious imagination, remarkable compositional precision, and wide popularity provide evidence that the genre is still thriving. Although...
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From: New Leader[(review date 11 July 1988) Below, Rodman offers a negative review of García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, particularly as compared to his No One Writes to the Colonel.] In the 1960s Latin American fiction...
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From: American Journal of Psychoanalysis[(essay date December 1994) In the following essay, Rendon presents a psychological reading of Chronicle of a Death Foretold and suggests that Angela is ultimately able to liberate herself through the power of the...
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From: Multicultural Literatures Through Feminist/Poststructuralist Lenses[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Hart demonstrates how Allende's style of magical realism differs from that of her male contemporaries by highlighting the distortion and inversion of sexist myths in The Stories...
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From:Literature Resource Center[In the following essay, Lilburn, a teaching assistant at the University of Western Ontario, examines how García Márquez uses the conventions of sentimental romance stories to explore deeper themes and even satirize...
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From: Lancet[(essay date 18 October 1997) In the following essay, Jones describes Love in the Time of Cholera as educational for health-care professionals working with the elderly.] "Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We...
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From: A Synergy of Styles: Art and Artifact in Gabriel García Márquez[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Clark focuses on the interplay between journalistic and fictional elements in Chronicle of a Death Foretold. She asserts that while the novella’s structure references the...
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From: Studies in Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date summer 2003) In the essay that follows, Frame demonstrates how Allende blends fictional elements and mythical hearsay along with historically documented evidence of the 1973 Chilean military coup in the...
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From: Confluencia[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Cohen discusses Tiempo de fulgor as a mythical history of the city of León, focusing on the novel’s structure and themes and tracing the influence of Gabriel García Márquez,...
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From: A Companion to Magical Realism[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Fiddian offers a reading of "Big Mama's Funeral" as an allegory that heralds the demise of colonialism in South America.] Critics have for a long time acknowledged the insight...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Novelist, story-teller, polemical journalist, recipient of the Nobel prize for literature, the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez has been among the most influential of 20th-century Latin American writers. Appearing at the...
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From: Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to Ground[(essay date 2007) In the following excerpt, Takolander evaluates the cultural politics of magical realism, asserting that the publishing industry frequently requires indigenous writers to use unconventional writing...
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From: Multicultural Literatures Through Feminist/Poststructuralist Lenses[(essay date 1993) In the essay below, Hart examines what she terms "feminocentric magic realism" in The Stories of Eva Luna, focusing on Allende's handling of such issues as prostitution and rape.] Magic used to show...