@article{ART002808726},
author={John Andrew M. del Prado},
title={Death and the Inoperative Community in the Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Merlinda Bobis},
journal={SUVANNABHUMI},
issn={2092-738X},
year={2022},
volume={14},
number={1},
pages={229-246},
doi={10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.229}

TY - JOUR
AU - John Andrew M. del Prado
TI - Death and the Inoperative Community in the Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Merlinda Bobis
JO - SUVANNABHUMI
PY - 2022
VL - 14
IS - 1
PB - Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
SP - 229
EP - 246
SN - 2092-738X
AB - Gabriel García Márquez’s short story “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” [“El ahogado más hermoso del mundo,” 1968] and the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Crónica de una muerte anunciada, 1981] and Merlinda Bobis’s novel Fish-Hair Woman (2012) and short story “O Beautiful Co-Spirit” (2021) feature unusual scenarios of death: the arrival of a drowned man’s corpse at an island; the inaction of the community to stop the foretold death of a supposedly-innocent man; a woman with long hair that can fetch dead bodies at the bottom of the village river; and a Filipino Catholic and a Malaysian Muslim working together to prepare an Italian Catholic’s corpse for a funeral. These narratives demand critical attention as all deaths make the community’s existence meaningful as they alter its social reality. Looking into the works of the aforementioned Colombian writer and Filipino writer and unveiling how death affects the community, this paper relies on Jean-Luc Nancy’s theory on death and inoperative community.
KW - magic realism;death;inoperative community;Gabriel Garcia Marquez;Merlinda Bobis
DO - 10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.229
ER -

John Andrew M. del Prado. (2022). Death and the Inoperative Community in the Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Merlinda Bobis. SUVANNABHUMI, 14(1), 229-246.

John Andrew M. del Prado. 2022, "Death and the Inoperative Community in the Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Merlinda Bobis", SUVANNABHUMI, vol.14, no.1 pp.229-246. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.229

John Andrew M. del Prado "Death and the Inoperative Community in the Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Merlinda Bobis" SUVANNABHUMI 14.1 pp.229-246 (2022) : 229.

John Andrew M. del Prado. Death and the Inoperative Community in the Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Merlinda Bobis. 2022; 14(1), 229-246. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.229

John Andrew M. del Prado. "Death and the Inoperative Community in the Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Merlinda Bobis" SUVANNABHUMI 14, no.1 (2022) : 229-246.doi: 10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.229

John Andrew M. del Prado. Death and the Inoperative Community in the Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Merlinda Bobis. SUVANNABHUMI, 14(1), 229-246. doi: 10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.229

John Andrew M. del Prado. Death and the Inoperative Community in the Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Merlinda Bobis. SUVANNABHUMI. 2022; 14(1) 229-246. doi: 10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.229

John Andrew M. del Prado. Death and the Inoperative Community in the Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Merlinda Bobis. 2022; 14(1), 229-246. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.229

John Andrew M. del Prado. "Death and the Inoperative Community in the Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Merlinda Bobis" SUVANNABHUMI 14, no.1 (2022) : 229-246.doi: 10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.229