Apr
4
McOndo
Posted by: | April 4, 2010 | Comments Off on McOndo
Estos cuentos me parecen bien raros. Los elegí al azar: “El vértigo horizontal,” “Sólo hablamos de la lluvia,” “He conocido a mucha gente,” “La mujer químicamente compatible,” y “Gritos y susurros.” Después de leer todos, me …
Apr
3
“Amor a la distancia”: a punch in the face
Posted by: | April 3, 2010 | Comments Off on “Amor a la distancia”: a punch in the face
A new mode of writing. One in which a story becomes internalized, vastly personal. The story, yes, can be communicated to readers; maybe they can even empathize with it. But the feeling of collective memory, of applicability to all: that’s gone. This …
Apr
3
Relatability and contrast and comparison. All works thus far.
Posted by: | April 3, 2010 | Comments Off on Relatability and contrast and comparison. All works thus far.
Starting with McOndo. As the editors of the book indicate, Westerners for the most part are consumers of mass-created products and ideas of lo latinoamericano. And those products and ideas seemed to stop advancing by the end of the 1960s, or thereabout…
Apr
2
summary of readings
Posted by: | April 2, 2010 | Comments Off on summary of readings
As mentioned in the beginning of the term magical realism was going to be introduced to us in moderation. Three different writers who all used different approaches in the use of magical realism in their works allowed for a well-rounded analysis that ma…
Mar
29
La busqueda de la identidad
Posted by: | March 29, 2010 | Comments Off on La busqueda de la identidad
¿Qué puedo decir a cerca de los tres libros que hemos leído? Creo que cada uno tiene su proprio lugar en consideración al Realismo Mágico. Una cosa que aprendí en mis investigaciones para el proyecto de Wiki pedía es que el Realismo Mágico a…
Mar
28
Comparando Guatemala, Haití, y Macondo..
Posted by: | March 28, 2010 | Comments Off on Comparando Guatemala, Haití, y Macondo..
Como pueden ver en mi título para este post… me parece que los tres textos que hemos leído se pueden comparar si comparamos los tres lugares en los que suceden los sucesos de las historias. Esto significa que los tres textos son literatura de lugares, y al decir que son sobre lugares, estos pueden incluir […]
Mar
28
a plethora of comparisons
Posted by: | March 28, 2010 | Comments Off on a plethora of comparisons
(ok, maybe not a pleathora, but it’s just so fun to say) Marquez is in no way giving us a history lesson, he’s more concerned with human behaviour than the telling of events. Cien an~os de soledad is more centered around the playing out of the impuls…
Mar
28
Pensando en los 3 textos….
Posted by: | March 28, 2010 | Comments Off on Pensando en los 3 textos….
I’m going to expand on the similarities and differences that my in-class-group noted about the three books we have read thus far. First of all, all three books contain historical events to varying degrees. Carpentier’s book is centered around a widely …
Mar
28
Looking at Leyendas, ERDM, and CADS all at once…
Posted by: | March 28, 2010 | Comments Off on Looking at Leyendas, ERDM, and CADS all at once…
When I consider the three novels that we’ve read for this class so far, I think of using a scale to find a balance. In Leyendas de Guatemala, the reader encounters an incredibly fantastic setting that seems to exist more as a feeling or vibe than a …
Mar
28
Los tres libros
Posted by: | March 28, 2010 | Comments Off on Los tres libros
In comparing the works we read this term, the first thing that comes to mind is each book’s readability and our analysis of each. This blog entry is my analysis of the texts from the perspective of the reader. I found Cien anos de soledad to be the eas…
