Ideological transfiguration ensured that Macondo and the Buendías - TopicsExpress



          

Ideological transfiguration ensured that Macondo and the Buendías always were ghosts to some extent, alienated and estranged from their own history, not only victims of the harsh reality of dependence and underdevelopment but also of the ideological illusions that haunt and reinforce such social conditions... Fatalism is a metaphor for the particular part that ideology has played in maintaining historical dependence, by locking the interpretation of Latin American history into certain patterns that deny alternative possibilities. The narrative seemingly confirms fatalism in order to illustrate the feeling of entrapment that ideology can performatively create. - Daniel Erickson, reviewing One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 03:50:50 +0000

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