Memory and the Quest for Family History in One Hundred Years of Solitud

Memory and the quest for Family History in unity Hundred Years of Solitude and claim of Solomon Pierre Nora proposes that the quest for memory is the search for ones record (289). In their sweat to reconstruct the communal histories of their people, Toni Morrison and Gabriel Garca Mrquez rely heavily on the use of memory as a means to rewrite the archives of those oppressed because of race, class and/or gender in a existence where historiography has been dominated by the white man. Memory is closely related to the replenishment of identity and history -- both personal and collective. Both memory and history dominate Cien Aos de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) from the very beginning, where the character reference Aureliano Buenda is introduced through his own recollections Muchos aos despus, frente al pelotn de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buenda haba de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llev a conocer el hielo (9) / Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buenda was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice (9). the wants of Garca Mrquez, Toni Morrison claims memory -- as well as predilection -- as an essential part of the narrative act The act of conceit is bound up with memory. You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make path for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. Floods is the word they use, but in fact it is non flooding it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a utter(a) memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that Remembering where we were, what valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light... ...tive Literature Courses. Approaches to Teaching Garca Mrquezs One Hundred Years of Solitude. Mara Elena de Valds and Mario J. Valds. New York The modern-day Language Association of America, 1990. 21-32. Parkinson Zamora, Lois. The Usable Past The Idea of History in Modern U.S. and Latin American Fiction. Do the Americas Have a customary Literature? Ed. Gustavo Prez Firmat. Durham Duke UP, 1990. 7-41. Pierce, Robert N. Fact or Fiction? The developmental Journalism of Gabriel Garca Mrquez. Journal of Popular Culture 22.1 (1988) 63-71. Ricci Della Grisa, Graciela N. Realismo Mgico y Conciencia Mtica en Amrica Latina. Buenos Aires Fernando Garca Cambeiro, 1985. Strouse, Jean. Toni Morrisons Black Magic. Newsweek (30 frame 1981) 52-57. Watkins, Mel. Interview with Toni Morrison. New York Times Book Review (11 September 1977) 50.