Analysis of article The Minds Eye by Oliver Sacks

Memory and the Quest for Family History in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Song of Solomon Pierre Nora recommends that the journey for memory is the quest for one's history (289). In their endeavor to remake the mutual accounts 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 in view of race, class or potentially sex in this present reality 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, Colone l 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 basic piece of the story demonstration: The demonstration of creative mind is bound up with memory. You know, they fixed the Mississippi River in places, to account for houses and bearable real esatate. Periodically the stream floods these spots. 'Floods' is the word they use, however in truth it isn't flooding; it is recalling. Recalling where it used to be. All water has an ideal memory and is everlastingly attempting to return to where it was. Scholars 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 Basic Literature? Ed. Gustavo Pã ©rez Firmat. Durham: Duke UP, 1990. 7-41. Penetrate, 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.