La representación de la muerte como vida en la narrativa de García Márquez
| dc.contributor.author | Marrugo-Puello, Cecilia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-13T18:18:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-04-13T18:18:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In a number of literary pieces in the western world tradition, death has typically been represented as an obscure episode related to mourning and sadness, brought about by ceasing of life or the departure of a dear one. However, in Hispanic Literature we find examples of how death is a symbol of laughter, a carnival, the celebration of new life and rebirth. For instance, this kind of festive representation of death is portrayed in the narratives of Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. Short stories such as “Big Mama's Funeral” depict the celebration of death in the decease of the “most powerful matron in the world”. This kind of representation is also observed in the narratives of some other Colombian Caribbean authors, which reveal an inversion of values in a Bakhtinian carnivalesque sense of the world: the deceased becomes the center of the spectacle, and mourners the participants and performers of a cirquesque function. In this presentation, I will focus on different literary examples, to explain the illustration of the death as a carnival and rebirth, in relation to the tendency of Colombian Caribbean writers to explore their coastal popular culture. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10657/3006 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | García Márquez, Gabriel | |
| dc.subject | Literature | |
| dc.subject | Death | |
| dc.subject | Celebration | |
| dc.title | La representación de la muerte como vida en la narrativa de García Márquez | |
| dc.type | Article |
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