Angie Cruz’s novel Soledad is the coming of age story of Soledad, the twenty-year-old daughter of Dominican Republic immigrants. In her youth, Soledad wished for escape, and while she manages it for a few years, her family calls her home at the beginning of the novel when her mother, Olivia, falls into a voluntarily catatonic … Continue reading The Emotional Divide: Soledad and Pilar Puente
At the beginning of her narrative in Cristina Garcia’s novel Dreaming in Cuban, Pilar Puente is decidedly Cuban. At fourteen years old, she has been in the United States for twelve year but says she remembers “everything that’s happened to me since I was a baby, even word-for-word conversations” (Garcia 26). Despite wanting to be … Continue reading “Confuse It, Dilute It:” The Languages of Dreaming
In keeping with the characteristics of Hispanic literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude spans five generations of the Buendía family. The novel opens with one of the most prominent characters within it, Colonel Aureliano Buendía, and from there, proceeds through the antics of the Buendía men. The novel opens and closes with male characters, … Continue reading Isabel Allende: New Woman and New Novel
Translating is not merely an act of copying words; rather, the meaning too must be considered and interpreted. On first reading, the events—and even the characters—of Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude occur in repetition without any clear reason as to why. Why are Aurelianos so intent on starting revolutions, and why do characters undo their … Continue reading Aureliano Babilonia: the Reader
In class, two questions were raised on the changing narrators and leaps through time in Juan Rulfo’s novel Pedro Páramo. Juan Preciado, who begins the story as the narrator, dies halfway through the novel, which is a unique quality of Pedro Páramo yet at the same time a baffling one. Beginning the novel with the … Continue reading The Circle of Pedro Páramo
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