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Magical Realism Reconsidered

I'm looking forward to working with your class during the semester - if you have any questions about the project or Wikipedia in general, please feel free to leave me a note at User talk:Awadewit. Wikipedians are here to help you! Awadewit (talk) 19:40, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Bibliography assignment

Hi, here are the details of the MRR annotated bibliography assignment...

Good Wikipedia articles are built on a foundation of good sources. In this respect, Wikipedia articles are not much different from academic essays. In fact, if anything a good Wikipedia article is more reliant on good sources than are other academic or scholarly texts. The whole notion of verifiability, which is the first of the encyclopedia's five pillars, depends upon reliable sources.

The aim of this bibliography assignment, then, is to identify, read, and comment on the most important and reliable sources that relate to the topic of your chosen article.

In coordination with your group, you need to do the following:

• Identify the most important sources for your topic. These will be both books and articles. They will vary depending upon the kind of topic you have chosen, but to give a couple of examples this book is a key one for the general topic of magic realism, while this biography would be essential for the article on Gabriel García Márquez.
• Use databases and the Koerner library catalogue to identify these sources. Look for as many as possible in the first instance; you will later choose between them. On the whole, they will not be online sources (though of course many articles are now available online thanks to JSTOR and other services).
• Aim to come up with a long list of, say, 5-20 books and perhaps 15-40 articles. Obviously, for some topics there will be more material than for others. So for some topics you will need to do more searching; for other topics, you will need to be more careful and discerning as you choose between sources. Look far and wide and be inventive in thinking about good sources.
• In some cases, the article may already have a number of references, either in the article itself, or perhaps somewhere in its talkpage archives. You should take account of these, but you should still undertake your own search, not least to find new material that has not been considered before.
• To figure out what you need, you will also have to look at your article and consider what it is missing, what needs to be improved, where it could do with better sources, etc. In other words, you will have to start planning how you are going to work on and rewrite the article.
• Come up with a final short list of c. 2-4 books and perhaps 6-24 articles.
• Put the long list (of all the sources you have found) as well as the short list (of the sources you have decided are the most important) on your article's talk page by Wednesday, January 20.
• Distribute the sources among the members of your group. Each person should be reading the equivalent of one full book or six articles. Exceptionally long books may be divided up between group members.
• Read the sources, bearing in mind the information that is going to be useful as you work on the article. Think about what it covers and take a note of particular page numbers.
• Produce an annotated bibliography of the sources you have read. This will consist of a summary or précis of the most important aspects of the texts, which should be at least 150 words long for each article read; 600 words for each book. You should put this on your user page by Monday, February 8.

To coordinate with the other members of your group (whose names you can find here), use their talk pages. Each time that you log in to Wikipedia, you will notice that if you have a message waiting for you, there will be a yellow banner at the top of the page.

Good luck! --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 23:12, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

gathering sources on McOndo

hey,

my name is jeremy and im in your group!

I think these 3 works could be of much use:

Giving up the Ghost by Angel Gurria Quintana

De Macondo a McOndo by Diana Palaversich

McOndo by Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gomez

Im at koerner library right now and the first two aren't available and the third has been checked out, hopefully by one of you. Let me know if one of you find a way to get these books besides ordering them online.

jeremy

--Jeremyblaugrana (talk) 01:59, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

mcondo

nice! good list.

i put in an order today at koerner's for an inter-library loan to get some of the books i listed that weren't available.

turns out mcondo is an assigned course reading that we cant cite for our bibliography for wikipedia, but we'll read it anyways so it doesnt matter.

we'll be in touch

jeremy —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeremyblaugrana (talk • contribs) 23:54, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

from Lionthanatos

(I moved the following from your user page to this talk page. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 03:30, 20 January 2010 (UTC))

Well I searched out a few things and heres the list I've come up with so far the books seem to be available for the most part and I have a bit of preference on reading Rosario Tijerras By Jorge Franco

Libros

El Rey de la Habana by Pedro Juan Gutierrez

Rosario Tijerras By Jorge Franco

Pablo Escobar. By Alonso Salazar

Macondo y otros mitos by Diana Palaverish

Articulo

Parricidios, filicidios, matricidios, fratricidio By Jorge Ruffinelli. Litoral revista de poesia , arte y pensamientos Quimera nº 245, junio 2004.

Pelicula

Before Night Falls directed by Julian Schnabel

Our Lady of the Assassins directed by Barbet Schroeder Also a book to

Rosario Tijeras directed by Emilio Maille

--Lionthanatos (talk) 06:59, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

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McOndo bibliography

Hi!

Sorry that this is so late... I had trouble finding sources that you guys haven’t already found. Not very much material on this topic as we’ve already said. Some of these may be repeats, but I have ranked the books and articles on a star basis depending on how useful I think they will be.

Books:

 3 Star  -

1. Latin American literature and mass media

By Edmundo Paz Soldán, Debra A. Castillo

2. Miradas axiológicas a la literatura hispanoamericana: actas del II Coloquio Internacional

By Bogdan Piotrowski Y Varios

 2 Star  -

3. The spaces of Latin American literature: tradition, globalization, and Cultural Production

By Juan E. De Castro

4. América, n° 25: Les nouveaux réalismes, 2e série. Autre réel, autre écriture

 1 Star  -

5. Memoria, duelo y narración: Chile después de Pinochet

By Roland Spiller

6. Atisbos

By Gabriela Ovando

7. Dieciséis entrevistas con autores chilenos contemporáneos: la emergencia de una nueva narrativa

By Guillermo García-Corales

8. Ordinary enchantments: magical realism and the remystification of narrative

By Wendy B. Faris

Articles:

 3 Star  -

1. McOndo y el espejo trizado: la diseminada modernidad latinoamericana By Alexis Candia Céceres

2. En Teoría Hablamos de Literatura Actas del III Congreso Internacional de Aleph (Granada, 3-7 de abril de 2006)

See you in class! (Thussen (talk) 08:16, 21 January 2010 (UTC)thussen)

just to make sure

ok so u mentioned a few articles that you were thinking about doing and I was looking through your list and thought that I would like to do #10 and #14 for sure from your list and I just wanted to make sure that you hadnt already gone ahead with writing the annotated bib. for either of these, otherwise i will go ahead and do it for those two. just to double check, i dont think you mentioned that you were gonna do them. anyways, catch ya later--Jeremyblaugrana (talk) 04:53, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Meeting Today

Hi,

Yes, if you still want to meet up we are planning on 3 in Ike's cafe (Irving K Barber)today (Sat 10).

Hope to see you there, (Thussen (talk) 18:51, 10 April 2010 (UTC)thussen)

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