Approaches to Teaching García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
Editor(s): María Elena de Valdés, Mario J. Valdés
Pages: x & 156 pp.
Published: 1990
ISBN: 9780873525367
"The essays of this volume are all of high quality and should serve as a valuable aid to professors teaching Cien
años de soledad and to students seeking a better understanding of its content."
Hispania
The casebound edition of this title is out of print.
Critics have read One Hundred Years of Solitude as a cultural document, as a revolutionary narrative, and as a high point of early postmodernism. The novel is taught widely and in a variety of curricular contexts, from courses on civilization and Latin American literature to seminars on comparative literature and women's studies. When treating the novel in North American classrooms, however, nearly all teachers must address similar issues--for example, Latin American history and magic realism. This volume in the Approaches to Teaching World Literature series suggests different methods for presenting these issues to undergraduates.
The volume is divided into two parts. The first part, "Materials," discusses works about the novel and its author, the historical background, ideological contexts, and literary interpretations. The second part, "Approaches," contains twelve essays on teaching One Hundred Years of Solitude. One group of essays shows how the novel is presented in various courses, such as humanities or politics. A second group of essays features approaches using history, ideology, myth, Jungian psychology, analytic psychology, hermeneutics, narratology, and other perspectives. The novel readily supports this range of interpretations because it is, as the editors say, "above all, a magnificent story that holds readers spellbound."
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
PART 1: MATERIALS
María Elena de Valdés
Editions and Translations
The Novel and Its Author
Historical Background
Ideological Contexts
- Critical Studies
- Literary Contexts
- Mythic Contexts
- Interpretation and Analysis
- Women and the Novel
Pedagogical Studies
Audiovisual Materials and Related Criticism
Bibliographies
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
Mario J. Valdés
Course Contexts
One Hundred Years of Solitude in Humanities Courses
Hanna Geldrich-Leffman
One Hundred Years of Solitude in Comparative Literature Courses
Lois Parkinson Zamora
One Hundred Years of Solitude in History, Politics, and Civilization Courses
Chester S. Halka
One Hundred Years of Solitude in Women's Studies Courses
María Elena de Valdés
One Hundred Years of Solitude in Interdisciplinary Courses
Sandra M. Boschetto
One Hundred Years of Solitude in Latin American Literature Courses
Walter D. Mignolo
Interpretive Approaches for the Classroom
An Approach Using Ideology and History
Gabriela Mora
An Approach Using History, Myth, and Metafiction
Isabel Alvarez Borland
Archetypal Approaches
Robert L. Sims
An Approach from Analytical Psychology
Gary Eddy
Hermeneutics: A Phenomenological Approach
Mario J. Valdés
A Narratological Approach
Amaryll Chanady
Works Cited
Index
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