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- Title
Race and Character in Cien años de soledad.
- Authors
López-Mejía, Adelaida
- Abstract
The depiction of race in Cien años de soledad/One Hundred Years of Solitude merits careful analysis, since Gabriel García Márquez's magical realist novel is set in a multiracial Caribbean society. The seventeen sons of Colonel Aureliano Buendía are identified as mixedrace, dark-skinned, or mulato men, thus highlighting the overlap between illegitimacy and miscegenation in Latin America. These male characters are not developed with the care or complexity with which the narrator characterizes the legitimate Buendía males. Female characters of African descent in the novel are more carefully developed than their male counterparts, but their characterization is marred by unfortunate stereotypes associating women of color with animalistic and promiscuous sexuality. Nevertheless the biracial character of Petra Cotes is memorable for her ethical complexity and valor.
- Subjects
100 Years of Solitude (Book : Garcia Marquez); GARCIA Marquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014; RACE in literature; CHARACTER in literature; MAGIC realism (Literature); LITERARY characters
- Publication
Theory in Action, 2013, Vol 6, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
1937-0229
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3798/tia.1937-0237.13002