Reflections of Social Identity in Short Stories by Gabriel García Márquez
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.elc.n37a05Keywords:
García Márquez, Gabriel, Ojos de perro azul, Los funerales de la Mamá Grande, social identity, narrative syntaxAbstract
This article aims to determine the discursive constituent elements present in Ojos de perro azul and Los funerales de la Mamá Grande. Twentytwo stories written by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez from 1947 to 1962 were grouped into four elements belonging to his narrative grammar, namely: (i) a sensual capital that accounts for a perceptual dominant aspect; (ii) a redundant temporal-spatial passing of time in which events take place; (iii) the skill of personages and, finally, (iv) an indicative staging. The analysis of these elements insinuates cartographies on the psychological and ideological aspects in his stories allowing the diagnosis of some traits of the world the author created related to identity qualities of the nation (or Colombianess) if we accept that every social identity crystallizes in discursive orders. Results show the primitive sketch of Garcia-Marquez’s discursiveness (in Spanish, la discursividad garcíamarquina) which establishes Macondian physiognomies; that is to say, a symbolic world where his personages are marginal beings that live internal, porous solitary experiences in psychological spaces where apathy, resignation and a loss of contact with social reality predominate.
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