Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:23:39 +0100
From: Andrea Schwieger-Hiepko <andrea1-AT-fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: Latin American writers


hello bruce,
the best suggestion i can do ad hoc is the last novel of gabriel 
garcia marquez, del amor y otros demonios. several themes can be 
treated in its close reading:

latin american history in general and colombia in special
the decadence of the colonization system
the mestizaje theme


but as well:
textual practice of an interdisciplinary writer (jounalistic, 
novelistic and essayistic writing melted)

the bakhtin paradigma of the carnevalesque, speaking in different 
tongues

oral history as a dicourse phenomena

and so on

you will see, that you even don't have to read the whole marquez, to 
know about his techniques and procedures. this is in my opinion his 
best novel up to now.

try it
regards 
andrea schwieger




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