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Monday May 8 (Jorge Luis Borges (Metafiction (Comes out of post-colonial…
Monday May 8
Jorge Luis Borges
From Argentina
Wrote in English and Spanish
In and of itself is world literature
Renaissance man
Metafiction
Comes out of post-colonial world
Grew up in Africa and Latin America
ie Allende
Abstract
Concerned with broad categories of experience
Commentary on writing by writing or reading by reading
Breaks 4th wall
Pierre Menard
No real credentials
Unknown if this is accurate
Context matters
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Magical Realism
Take for granted that this is a world where magical things happen
VERY uniquely S. American or African
Colonialism creates a bizarre, magical realist world
Makes more sense to these people (according to Marquez)
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
Concerned with legacy of colonialism and imperial cultures
