Online Teaching Materials

Information about the Santa Marta Massacre (aka the Banana Massacre), including links to documents from the United Fruit Company's archives as well as declassified documents:http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/colombia/santamarta.htm

Professor Laura Matthew's Latin American History course website:http://academic.mu.edu/matthew/hist071/

Teaching One Hundred Years with Faulkner’s Sound and the Fury
http://www6.semo.edu/cfs/tfn_online/sound_frisch.htm
Mark Frisch, Duquesne University, writes that combining these novels in the classroom environment is fruitful.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez/ Colombia
http://retanet.unm.edu/article.pl?sid=03/05/18/2110111
Lesson plan about Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia and two of his works, short story "The Saint" and film Miracle in Rome.

“On Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude”
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/introser/marquez.htm
Ian Johnston’s lecture explores many elements of the novel. He looks at the use of linear and circular time, and magical realism. He also celebrates the comic elements of the book in addition to the tragic ones.

Spanish Language Resources
http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/cortes/classes/Spring2004/301/undia.html

Resources From Laura

For more political cartoons from the age of neocolonialism:John Johnson, Latin America in Carciature ( Texas , 1980)

On Colombian history: Frank Safford and Marcos Palacios, Colombia : Fragmented Land, Divided Society ( Oxford , 2002)

For short essays on teaching the novel from different disciplinary perspectives: Gene Bell-Villada,Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Casebook ( Oxford , 2002)

For more approaches to teaching the novel: Maria Elena de Valdes and Mario J. Valdes,Approaches to Teaching Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (Modern Language Association, 1990)

For short primary readings:

“The Poetry of Anti-Imperialism” (Pablo Neruda), both in John Chasteen and James Wood,Problems in Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations (Scholarly Resources, 2004). You can also see Neruda's poem about the United Fruit Company, from his Canto General , on Week 9 of my course website.

“War to the Death” (Simón Bolívar), “The Subversive Democratic Society in New Granada” (Venancio Ortiz), “Rosa's Ribbons and Rituals” (Domingo Sarmiento – SEE MY NOTE BELOW), and many of the readings in the section titled “The Search for Cultural Identity” in Chasteen and Joseph Tulchin Problems in Latin American History: A Reader (Scholarly Resources, 1994).

NOTE: in the Sarmiento reading, which deals with Argentina , it may confuse students that the respective colors for Liberals and Conservatives are reversed in Argentina and Colombia. Still, Argentina 's Rosas is a great example of how 19 th century Liberals and Conservatives used simple symbols like colors and ribbons to saturate (literally) an area and claim power, as we seen in the painting of houses blue by Conservatives in Macondo.

For the Alejo Carpentier essay “De lo real maravillosa” (in English) and other essays see Magical Realism: History, Theory, Community , Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy Faris, eds. (Duke, 1995)

For a Colombian timeline (especially regarding the morphing of the Liberal-Conservative divide into La Violencia 1948-58, guerrilla wars in the 1960s and narcotrafficking in the 70s-today), my students have found useful: http://colhrnet.igc.org/timeline.htm

For the embrace of indigenous or African identity in art and music in the 1920s-30s, there is so much! The Americas video series (WGBH) has something on samba with Caetano Veloso in #7 of series, “Builders of Images.” For Mexico , of course there are muralists like Diego Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros. Also for music, see this readable history book by a Brazilian, The Mystery of Samba : Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil, Hermano Vianna (Univ. of North Carolina, 1999) and the less accessible, more academic Music, Race, and Nation: Musica Tropical in Colombia , Peter Wade (Chicago, 2000).

Other Information about Marquez

Macondo
http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/
Pictures, essays, reviews, biographies about Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Pretty cool site.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/
This website has a short biography of Marquez, his Nobel lecture in English and Spanish, and a bibliography. There is even an 18 minute recording of Marquez in Spanish.

Internet Book List: Author Information: Gabriel García Márquez
http://www.iblist.com/author559.htm
This has a longer biography of Marquez and a complete list of his works with synopses.

SoloLiteratura: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
http://sololiteratura.com/php/autor.php?id=15
This Spanish site has some of his speeches, interviews and articles about him.

General Latin American Literature

Survey of Latin-American Culture Through Literature
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1997/1/97.01.08.x.html#c
This is a lesson plan about Latin American literature with general discussion questions. Movies and novels are listed.

Exploring Genre Through Latin American Poetry and Literature
http://www.outreachworld.org/resource.asp?Curriculumid=989
The literature is available in English and Spanish. This syllabus is for primary grades but it can be changed for intermediate grades and even adult instruction. Some suggested works are included.

Retanet: American Literature: an Oblique Introduction
http://retanet.unm.edu/article.pl?sid=03/05/18/1942111&mode=flat&tid=40
Since alternate discussions of American history have only begun to emerge, this curriculum tries to engage students in exploring Latin American and Caribbean authors. This course has students learn about the impact of Colombus’ encounter in the Americas.

Latin American Literature: Revelation and Revolution
http://www.chatham.edu/pti/Contemp_Latin/Weiss_01.htm
Constance Weiss, a teacher at Schenley High School, writes about her reasons for choosing to study Latin American literature. She lists the authors and their works by country. There are some links and a bibliography. It’s pretty informal but it has some thoughts about what is age appropriate and what to discuss.

Books and Films about Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his Works

Book: Mario Vargas Llosa. García Márquez, Historia de un Deicidio
Spanish only. This is a work about Marquez by another famous Latin American writer. Incidentally, after the book was written, the two had a falling out after Llosa punched Marquez at a movie theatre.

Book: Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Special Edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude for 40 year anniversary. (in Spanish) 
It includes contributions from Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Víctor García de la Concha, Real Academia de la Lengua.

Book: Joset Jacques. Gabriel García Márquez coetáneo de la eternidad. 
This short book explores themes in Marquez’s fiction. In Spanish.

Book: Harold Bloom. Gabriel García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude.
This book contains many essays about One Hundred Years.

Book: George R McMurray. Critical essays on Gabriel García Márquez.
Essays cover many topics and works of Marquez.

Documentary: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a witch writing. 
http://www.documen.tv/asset/Gabriel_Gracia_Marquez_Film.html
This website has information about this documentary about Marquez and magical realism. There is a short free version of the film and links to obtain full access for a charge.

Documentary: García Márquez in 90 minutes.
This film explores Marquez’s life and works.