Shared solitude :

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" Shared solitude : "
Murray, Patricia

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1093903
Doc. No	:	TLets308004
Main Entry	:	Murray, Patricia
Title & Author	:	Shared solitude :\ Murray, Patricia
College	:	University of Warwick
Date	:	1994
student score	:	1994
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	This thesis provides an analysis of the works of Gabriel García Márquez and Wilson Harris in the cross-cultural context of the Americas, emphasizing the importance of myth as well as history in their attempts to explore the hybridity of post-colonial identity. García Márquez' phrase “la soledad compartida" is interpreted as the process of a spiritual Journey in which both writers articulate the quest to reintegrate the fractured American psyche. Historical and political contexts are provided to focus the nature of fragmentation, and insights from the new physics to re-iterate the presence of the 'real world' which continues to inform both writers in their experiments with linguistic and literary conventions. Realism is seen as insufficient for defining the reality of the Americas and a framework of magical realism is offered as a more appropriate context in which to approach both writers. My methodology is cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, referring to a variety of Latin American and Caribbean writers, and drawing on history, myth, psychology, and physics, as well as debates about post-colonialism and postmodernism, to support my argument that Harris and García Márquez present a vision of the world in which there is creative hope for the future.
Subject	:	PQ Romance literatures
	:	PR English literature
Added Entry	:	University of Warwick