The Oxford Handbook of Gabriel García Márquez

Gene H. Bell-Villada is the Harry C. Payne Professor of Romance Languages at Williams College. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on Latin American and comparative literature, including Borges and His Fiction: A Guide to His Mind and Art (1981), García Márquez: The Man and His Work (1990; winner of the New England Council of Latin American Studies Best Book Prize, 1991), Art For Art's Sake and Literary Life (1996), and three edited collections on García Márquez. He has also published a memoir, Overseas American: Growing up Gringo in the Tropics (2005), and two volumes of fiction, as well as articles and reviews in popular venues, such as The Nation, Boston Review, and The New York Times Book Review,.Ignacio López-Calvo is Presidential Endowed Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Latin American literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of more than ninety articles and book chapters, as well as eight books on Latin American and US Latino literature and culture, including Saudades of Japan and Brazil: Contested Modernities in Lusophone Nikkei Cultural Production (2019); Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Tusán Literature and Knowledge in Peru (2014); and Written in Exile. Chilean Fiction from 1973-Present (2001). He has also edited and coedited seventeen other books. He is the co-founder and co-executive director of the journal Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World and the co-executive director of the book series "Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia" and "Anthem Studies in Latin American Literature and Culture Series."

• AcknowledgmentsAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors Introduction to Gabriel García MárquezGene H. Bell-Villada and Ignacio López-Calvo PART I. SOCIOHISTORICAL AND LITERARY BACKGROUNDS 1. Scripting Gabriel García Márquez's Life Stephen M. Hart2. García Márquez and Magical Realism Wendy B. Faris3. García Márquez and the Global South Magalí Armillas-Tiseyras4. Cultural Modernization in García Márquez's Caribbean Marcela Velasco5. García Márquez and the Remaking of the Global Canon Juan E. De Castro6. García Márquez and His Precursors Lois Parkinson Zamora7. Fictions of Difficult Love Aníbal González-Pérez PART II. RACE, ETHNICITY, AND GENDER 8. Imagining the Caribbean in García Márquez's Fiction Adelaida López-Mejía9. Amerindian Wayúu Legacy and Garciamarquezian Literary Fable Juan Moreno Blanco 10. The Power of Women in García Márquez's World Nadia Celis PART III. WORLDWIDE INFLUENCES AND LEGACY 11. García Márquez in Africa Regina Janes12. The Arabs and Gabriel García Márquez Heba El Attar13. García Márquez in China Teng Wei14. One Hundred Years of Solitude and Its Influence in Japan Gonzalo Robledo15. South Asian Readings of Gabriel García Márquez Sonya Surabhi Gupta and Shad Naved16. Spain in the Making and Reception of García Márquez's Works Álvaro Santana-Acuña PART IV. KEY THEMES AND LEITMOTIFS17. Myth and Poetry in MacondoMercedes López-Baralt18. Style and Surprise in García Márquez Michael Wood19. García Márquez's Global Travel Writing beyond the Iron Curtain, 1955-1959 Mariano Siskind20. Dark Ecology in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera William Flores21. Repetition and Alchemy in One Hundred Years of Solitude René Prieto22. Music as a Formal and Structuring Feature in García Márquez's Mature Fiction Gene H. Bell-Villada and Marco Katz Montiel23. García Márquez's Anti-Eurocentric, Non-Magical Latin America in His Public Speeches Ignacio López-Calvo PART V. KEY WORKS 24. Writing and Politics in García Márquez's Early Works María Helena Rueda25. Monstrous Innocence and Its Expression in García Márquez's Tales Mary Lusky Friedman26. The Protean Viewpoint in One Hundred Years of Solitude Erik Camayd-Freixas27. Fate and Free Will in Chronicle of a Death Foretold Philip Swanson28. Pathology, Power, and Patriarchy in The Autumn of the Patriarch and The General in His Labyrinth Helene C. Weldt-Basson29. Modernity and Its Ruins in Of Love and Other Demons Nereida Segura-Rico30. The Later Work of García Márquez Nicholas Birns31. The Threefold Selves in García Márquez's Writing Robert Sims32. The Filmic-Literary Works of García Márquez Alessandro Rocco

Those interested in García Márquez's work and Latin American literature in general will welcome this book, with its excellent, up-to-date research.