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

Memory and the Quest for Family History in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Song of Solomon Pierre Nora recommends that the mission for memory is the quest for one's history (289). In their endeavor to reproduce the common chronicles of their kin, Toni Morrison and Gabriel Garcã ­a Mã ¡rquez depend intensely on the utilization of memory as a way to change the historical backdrop of those persecuted as a result of race, class or potentially sexual orientation in reality as we know it where historiography has been overwhelmed by the white man. Memory is firmly identified with the recovery of character and history - both individual and group. Both memory and history rule Cien Aã ±os de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) from the earliest starting point, where the character Aureliano Buendã ­a is presented through his own memories: Muchos aã ±os despuã ©s, frente al pelotã ³n de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendã ­a habã ­a de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevã ³ a conocer el hielo (9)/Numerous years after the fact, as he confronted the terminating crew, Colonel Aureliano Buendã ­a was to recall that far off evening when his dad took him to find ice (9). Like Garcã ­a Mã ¡rquez, Toni Morrison claims memory - just as creative mind - as a fundamental piece of the account demonstration: The demonstration of creative mind is bound up with memory. You know, they fixed the Mississippi River in places, to prepare for houses and bearable grounds. Once in a while the waterway floods these spots. 'Floods' is the word they use, yet in truth it isn't flooding; it is recollecting. Recollecting where it used to be. All water has an ideal memory and is everlastingly attempting to return to where it was. Journalists are that way: Remembering where we were, what valley we went through, what the banks resembled, the light... ...tive Literature Courses. Approaches to Teaching Garcã ­a Mã ¡rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Marã ­a Elena de Valdã ©s and Mario J. Valdã ©s. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1990. 21-32. Parkinson Zamora, Lois. The Usable Past: The Idea of History in Modern U.S. what's more, Latin American Fiction. Do the Americas Have a Regular Literature? Ed. Gustavo Pã ©rez Firmat. Durham: Duke UP, 1990. 7-41. Puncture, Robert N. Certainty or Fiction?: The Developmental Journalism of Gabriel Garcã ­a Mã ¡rquez. Journal of Popular Culture 22.1 (1988): 63-71. Ricci Della Grisa, Graciela N. Realismo Mã ¡gico y Conciencia Mã ­tica en Amã ©rica Latina. Buenos Aires: Fernando Garcã ­a Cambeiro, 1985. Strouse, Jean. Toni Morrison's Black Magic. Newsweek (30 March 1981): 52-57. Watkins, Mel. Meeting with Toni Morrison. New York Times Book Review (11 September 1977): 50.