La cultura del Caribe en la narrativa de Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Title
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La cultura del Caribe en la narrativa de Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Identifier
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AAI3063870
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identifier
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3063870
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Creator
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Perdomo, Miguel Anibal.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Malva E. Filer
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Date
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2002
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Language
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Spanish
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Caribbean | Literature, Latin American
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Abstract
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The objective of this dissertation is to show that the Caribbean culture plays an essential role in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's works, determinating space, structure, and influencing his characters. In his books, the novelist revisits the first colonial chroniclers' vision and presents the Caribbean as a unified anthropological marvel, which irradiates from the West-Indian archipelago towards the southern portion of United States, Central America, and the northern zone of South America. The Caribbean culture is not only a vital source from which his narrative is born, but he cleaves his novelistic space into two opposite worlds, converting them in hyperbolic antinomies.;For Garcia Marquez the Caribbean is a cosmogonic space, and he opposes to it "the other space", Andean or European, which are archetypes of danger and evil. His texts are organized in antithetical rhetorical structures. They are manipulative strategies, disguised as objective. In fact, Garcia Marquez's works display a deeply compromised orientation, with neo-romantic aspects. In his narrative, the Caribbean acquires a paradisiacal and utopian hue, disrupted by foreign elements, namely, the state's control and repression mechanisms, arriving from the Colombian Andean, North American or European space. Colonialism is the most dangerous one.;Though the Caribbean culture---with which Garcia Marquez identifies---has a distinctive African flavor, the Black, like the Indian in Garcia Marquez's works, lacks textual freedom. His fate is predetermined by Colombian collective subconscious racial prejudices. However, Garcia Marquez's primitive vision of the narrative space and his mythical rhetoric are suspiciously close to the negritude theories and to the ancient African cosmovision. Garcia Marquez's responds to the discourse of modernity with a postmodern discourse of resistance. In view of the failed modern Colombian or Latino American nation-states projects, he situates his cultural motherland in the Caribbean. At the end, the textual contradictions tend to be solved through the oxymoron, the essential rhetorical figure of the Caribbean discourse.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
