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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.
List of contents
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 Horrors of Death, and Other Themes in the Short Stories of García Márquez
by Rubén Pelayo
11. Gastronomical Pilgrims
Fernando Valerio-Holguín
12. Reading Illness in Gabriel García Márquez's Of Love and Other Demons
Olivia Vázquez-Medina
13. Magical Realism as a Simple Tool to Elicit Humor in Of Love and Other Demons
Ignacio López-CalvoPart Four. Other Genres, Other Media
14. The Permutations of the Fictional, Non-Fictional, and Autobiographical 'I' in the works of Gabriel García Márquez
Robert L. Sims
15. Doomed from the Start: Big-Screen Adaptations of Two García Márquez Novels
Rudyard Alcocer and Haley Osborn
16. Remembering Broadway's Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Zhanna Gurvich
About the author
Edited by Gene H. Bell-Villada - Contributions by Rudyard Alcocer; Nicholas Birns; Juan De Castro; William Flores; Edith Grossman; Zhanna Gurvich; Héctor Hoyos; Regina Janes; María del Mar López-Cabrales; Ignacio López-Calvo; Haley Osborn; Rubén Pelayo; R
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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.
