Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fourteen Sister is likely to upset some readers Occurrences that seem disreputable in Garcia Marquez' Picturesque backwater towns become more distorting when they arise in Cobbleton, Pennsylvania at the beginning of the novel, a plane crashes because the Montez O'Brten house exudes so much femininity that the pilot is overcome and the engine malfunctions; later, the ghost of Nelson's sister returns to watch him make love to Mariels. American readers can swallow these events when they're set in Macondo and Aracatacas; magical realism has been relegated to the level of quaint events in imaginary south...
...Relating that to literature, what do you think of the new crop of Latina writers like Sandra Cisneros and Cristina Garcia...
...wish them well I think that they're trying to find ways of expressing their own take on their experiences. I think Cristina Garcia's work is more ambitious, although I like Cisneros. I like the individuality of their work, and I wish them well. I'd like to see [Cisneros] write a book about going to England. I think literature should do two things at least culturally, and that is to preserve the culture, but also get some insight as to how the culture interacts with other generations, with another culture, and also about the inner life...
...influence of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Latin American magical realism as a burden for you and other Hispanic writers, something you can't get away from...
...past, an American past but also interceding with this Cuban psyche and also with the Irish take on things, the melancholy which I guess is in all my books. There are parts of Fourteen Sisters that to me are truly magical that no one mentions, so different from Garcia Marquez that it's amazing to me. I could've written a follow-up to Mambo Kings could've done a follow-up to my first novel. I'm just trying to change things a little bit. Not to be [retentions, or anything, I just want to break the mold...