Love Affairs. Marriage Proposals. The Song of Solomon Can Be Used as a Matchmaking Device. Smallpox

2019 ◽  
pp. 34-36
Keyword(s):  
Song Of Solomon

Uncommon Grounds

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
American Novel ◽  
Song Of Solomon ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The Us

This chapter turns from a historical account of the development of the US literature of experience and the Latin American literature of reading to a textual analysis of the US and Latin American historical novel. Hemispheric/inter-American scholars often cite William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! (1936), Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon (1977) as exemplifying instances of literary borrowing across the North–South divide. As I demonstrate, however, each of the later texts also realigns its predecessor’s historical imaginary according to the dominant logics of the US and Latin American literary fields. Whereas the American works foreground experiential models of reconstructing the past and conveying knowledge across generations, García Márquez’s Latin American novel presents reading as the fundamental mode of comprehending and transmitting history.

Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon

1984 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 274
Author(s):  
Nancy M. Currid ◽  
L. D. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Song Of Solomon

Gold and Bones: Remains of the Quest in Song of Solomon

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 452
Author(s):  
Claudine Raynaud
Keyword(s):  
Song Of Solomon
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