From the epic saga of the Buendia 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
Garcia Marquez 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
Garcia Marquez 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 Lopez-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 Garcia
Marquez-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.
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