The Oxford Handbook of Gabriel García Márquez

by Bell-Villada, Gene H.; López-Calvo, Ignacio

• ISBN13: 9780190067168
• ISBN10: 0190067160
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-12-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

From the epic saga of the Buendía family in One Hundred Years of Solitude to the enduring passion of Love in the Time of Cholera to the exploration of tyranny in The Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez has built a literary world that continues to captivate millions of readers across the world. His writings entrance modern audiences with their dreamlike yet trenchant insights into universal issues of the human condition such as love, revenge, old age, death, fate, power, and justice. A Nobel Laureate in 1982, he contributed to the global popularity of the Latin American Boom during the second half of the 20th century and had a profound impact on writers worldwide, including Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, and Haruki Murakami. The Oxford Handbook of Gabriel García Márquez brings together world experts on the Colombian writer to present a comprehensive English-language examination of his life, oeuvre, and legacy--the first such work since his death in 2014.
Edited by Latin American literature authorities Gene H. Bell-Villada and Ignacio López-Calvo, the volume paints a rich and nuanced portrait of "Gabo." It incorporates ongoing critical approaches such as feminism, ecocriticism, Marxism, and ethnic studies, while elucidating key aspects of his work, such as his Caribbean-Colombian background; his use of magical realism, myth, and folklore; and his left-wing political views. Thirty-two wide-ranging chapters cover 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 discuss his unique prose style, highlighting how music shaped his literary art. The Handbook gives unprecedented attention to the global influence 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. This is the first book that places the Colombian writer within that wider context, celebrating his importance both as a Latin American author and as a global phenomenon.

Author Biography

Gene H. Bell-Villada is the Harry C. Payne Professor of Romance Languages at Williams College. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on Latin American and comparative literature, including Borges and His Fiction: A Guide to His Mind and Art (1981), García Márquez: The Man and
His Work (1990; winner of the New England Council of Latin American Studies Best Book Prize, 1991), Art For Art's Sake and Literary Life (1996), and three edited collections on García Márquez. He has also published a memoir, Overseas American: Growing up Gringo in the Tropics (2005), and two
volumes of fiction, as well as articles and reviews in popular venues, such as The Nation, Boston Review, and The New York Times Book Review,.

Ignacio López-Calvo is Presidential Endowed Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Latin American literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of more than ninety articles and book chapters, as well as eight books on Latin American and US Latino literature and culture,
including Saudades of Japan and Brazil: Contested Modernities in Lusophone Nikkei Cultural Production (2019); Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Tusán Literature and Knowledge in Peru (2014); and Written in Exile. Chilean Fiction from 1973-Present (2001). He has also edited and coedited seventeen
other books. He is the co-founder and co-executive director of the journal Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World and the co-executive director of the book series "Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia" and "Anthem
Studies in Latin American Literature and Culture Series."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Contributors

Introduction to Gabriel García Márquez
Gene H. Bell-Villada and Ignacio López-Calvo

PART I. SOCIOHISTORICAL AND LITERARY BACKGROUNDS

1. Scripting Gabriel García Márquez's Life
Stephen M. Hart
2. García Márquez and Magical Realism
Wendy B. Faris
3. García Márquez and the Global South
Magalí Armillas-Tiseyras
4. Cultural Modernization in García Márquez's Caribbean
Marcela Velasco
5. García Márquez and the Remaking of the Global Canon
Juan E. De Castro
6. García Márquez and His Precursors
Lois Parkinson Zamora
7. Fictions of Difficult Love
Aníbal González-Pérez

PART II. RACE, ETHNICITY, AND GENDER

8. Imagining the Caribbean in García Márquez's Fiction
Adelaida López-Mejía
9. Amerindian Wayúu Legacy and Garciamarquezian Literary Fable
Juan Moreno Blanco
10. The Power of Women in García Márquez's World
Nadia Celis

PART III. WORLDWIDE INFLUENCES AND LEGACY

11. García Márquez in Africa
Regina Janes
12. The Arabs and Gabriel García Márquez
Heba El Attar
13. García Márquez in China
Teng Wei
14. One Hundred Years of Solitude and Its Influence in Japan
Gonzalo Robledo
15. South Asian Readings of Gabriel García Márquez
Sonya Surabhi Gupta and Shad Naved
16. Spain in the Making and Reception of García Márquez's Works
Álvaro Santana-Acuña

PART IV. KEY THEMES AND LEITMOTIFS
17. Myth and Poetry in Macondo
Mercedes López-Baralt
18. Style and Surprise in García Márquez
Michael Wood
19. García Márquez's Global Travel Writing beyond the Iron Curtain, 1955-1959
Mariano Siskind
20. Dark Ecology in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
William Flores
21. Repetition and Alchemy in One Hundred Years of Solitude
René Prieto
22. Music as a Formal and Structuring Feature in García Márquez's Mature Fiction
Gene H. Bell-Villada and Marco Katz Montiel
23. García Márquez's Anti-Eurocentric, Non-Magical Latin America in His Public Speeches
Ignacio López-Calvo

PART V. KEY WORKS

24. Writing and Politics in García Márquez's Early Works
María Helena Rueda
25. Monstrous Innocence and Its Expression in García Márquez's Tales
Mary Lusky Friedman
26. The Protean Viewpoint in One Hundred Years of Solitude
Erik Camayd-Freixas
27. Fate and Free Will in Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Philip Swanson
28. Pathology, Power, and Patriarchy in The Autumn of the Patriarch and The General in His Labyrinth
Helene C. Weldt-Basson
29. Modernity and Its Ruins in Of Love and Other Demons
Nereida Segura-Rico
30. The Later Work of García Márquez
Nicholas Birns
31. The Threefold Selves in García Márquez's Writing
Robert Sims
32. The Filmic-Literary Works of García Márquez
Alessandro Rocco