Today I found the following website on Gabriel Garcia Marquez:

http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/Ncw/marquez.htm


Author: Who wrote the website?
Elizabeth Van Tillburg and Kelly Goodall -- two students in college.



Audience: Who is the site written for?
Reference for college students.



Scholarship: Is this scholarly material?
Although informative, it was not written by a scholar.



Bias: What is the author’s point of view?

The point of view is the idea that magical realism allows an expanded version of realism that is necessary to explain the Latin American Experience. This is a biased point of view, but considering it is a literary idea, that is fine.





Currency: Is the information current?

This plays no role in this situation, as it is simply an individual interpretation of a few works. So whether or not it is current is not an issue.



Links: Where do the links take you?
NA

Final Assessment: Will you use this site in your research? Why?

No! Although it has good ideas, they are not fully trustworthy due to the source (and lack of citations on the page).

I have decided that I will do Gabriel Garcia Marquez as one of the two authors (Still deciding between a few short stories but I liked Love in the Time of Cholera) and Isabel Allende (who was a major contributer to the article I read yesterday and whose work I want to look into a bit more) for the other.

I believe, based on your comments (Ms. Mittler) that I may have found the topic that I want to explore. There is bound to be more about Magical Realism from the Latin American perspective out there. The article I read yesterday stated clearly that the term was coined from the perspective of European (specifically French) critics. I could also use the nobel prize speech that we read in class and maybe pull in a little history too.

Finally, Is there anywhere that I can find Collected Short Stories by Marquez? I don't believe it was in the library upon searching, but I will stop by Barnes and Nobel tommorow.