Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Socio-cultural Context (Family (Marriage: Arranged…
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Background
Born: March 6, 1927
Aracataca, Colombia
Died: April 17, 2014 (aged 87)
Mexico City, Mexico
-
Childhood: Grew up with his grandparents - his grandfather was a pensioned colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the century. He told Gabriel stories and lessons that he would later on introduce into his literature.
Education: Went to a Jesuit college and began to read law, but his studies were soon broken off for his work as a journalist.
Ocuppations: During and after his university years he wrote for local papers. He then joined a group of writers called the Barranquilla Group, which brought him inspiration and opportunities. In 1954 he was sent to Rome on an assignment for his newspaper, and since then he has mostly lived abroad - in Paris, New York, Barcelona and Mexico - in a more or less compulsory exile.
Politics: Marquez was a "committed Leftist" and adhered to socialist beliefs. Marquez maintained a close but "nuanced" friendship with Fidel Castro, praising the achievements of the Cuban Revolution, but criticizing aspects of governance. García Márquez's political and ideological views were shaped by his grandfather's stories.
Context
- He led the South American literary boom. (Boom of Latin American narrative)
- one of the few 20th century writer to achieve critical and popular esteem
Style of Works
-
Marquez himself noted that he did not have any consistent style of writing in his novels.... "In every book I try to make a different path [...]. One doesn't choose the style. You can investigate and try to discover what the best style would be for a theme. But the style is determined by the subject, by the mood of the times. If you try to use something that is not suitable, it just won't work. Then the critics build theories around that and they see things I hadn't seen. I only respond to our way of life, the life of the Caribbean"
-
Socio-cultural Context
-
-
-
-
-
Family
Marriage: Arranged marriages are no longer common, but are still encouraged to marry within their class. Men and women can date whoever they wish, but must be accompanied by a chaperone
Domestic unit: upper class families usually have more children, the father is the head of the household, while the mother is responsible for taking care and educating the children. Lower class women would work in the cit or next to kin in the fields
Inheritance: Parent divide it to children in equal shares. In rural families children may inherit land with the condition that they will work on it. In urban centres, children may inherit family businesses
Kin group: large upper class families have an extended kin group, the tis when the oldest member receives the most prestige and wealth
Infant care: mothers in the upper class, prefer to give birth in clinical centres, while women from the lower class usually give birth at home. Parents encourage the child to behave properly, they want them to have moral values and have them respect themselves and their elders. Children are encouraged to be obidient
-
-
-
-