La ficción de Gabriel García Márquez

The author of the book analyzes five short stories of one of the most significant writers of modern Latin American literature with a mythocritical and symbological approach. From among the endeavors to define and systematize the ancient literary figures for the interpretation of existence (myth, symbol), the author opts for Gilbert Durand's comprehensive system originating in cultural anthropology as a theoretical foundation and starting point for her analytical strategy. The original and dynamic analyses of the short stories, which, at the same time, respect the aspects indicated by the...

El campo de estudio que abarca la literatura del exilio es sumamente amplio, teniendo en cuenta que este fenómeno es bastante frecuente en la época de la globalización. El exilio aparece vinculado a la crisis de nuestro tiempo: con la guerra moderna, el imperialismo-capitalismo salvaje y las imposiciones de los gobiernos totalitarios. Entre los procesos más dolorosos vividos en la historia reciente se encuentran los regímenes de facto durante la década de los setenta en el Cono Sur que dejaron miles de víctimas desaparecidas, torturadas, asesinadas, prisioneras y exiliadas. La...

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...

Unique in coverage, this comprehensive one-volume anthology of Latin American literature, from pre-Columbian times to the present, covers not only the authors accepted within the literary canon, but innovative contemporary voices that are now breaking the ethnocentric mold.