Cuentos de Eva Luna notes PDF

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Important notes on Los cuentos de Eva Luna and Isabel Allende. These notes were really useful for me during exam season as we had to learn all about Los cuentos and write about them....

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Genres are ‘frameworks for constructing meaning and value’ (Frow, 2006, 72) – Allende both uses and subverts readers’ expectations of the romance genre to build her stories Emotive, melodramatic language Metaphors and similes appealing to the senses Themes: • Gender roles and power dynamics • The power of words (to seduce, to protect, to survive) Eva Luna the novel was published in 1987 Intertwining life stories of Eva and Rolf Carlé, who fall in love by the end Tells personal stories against a backdrop of political and social turmoil in generic South America (with cultural references specifically to Chile and Venezuela in terms of landscape, food, the oil trade) Eva is a storyteller and Cuentos de Eva Luna (1989) are the stories she tells Rolf – characters from Eva’s life story return in her cuentos. 23 stories: different kinds of experiences of love

Themes: - Sex - Violence - Magic - Feminism (Allende is a feminist and Eva is her favourite character as she is a feminist herself) - sensuality

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“Los Cuentos de Eva Luna” :

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important themes such as gender roles, womanhood, magic realism, romance, power, corruption and more. She viewed woman as powerful and used romance and melodramatic language to formulate and develop her stories. narrative techniques are used Allende avoided persecution by moving to Venezuela, politics is explored as a hidden theme. Allende mainly goes through social themes.

“Dos Palabras” is one of stories of the “cuentos” : -

Demonstrates latin American culture through themes such as realism. “Belisa” = protagonist who comes from countryside. Small villages are seen in allendes short stories The location/settings such as towns and small villages are key to the magic realism theme. Escapism is explored through Belisa Escapism of work to do the unconventional. Theme of poverty is. Key Protagonists writes and sells words to make money Newspapers are rare in her town which makes her fascinated when she see’s the man with the horse “Donde ella saciara su sed” Belisa is suffering, she’s hungry (theme of poverty) Newspaper discovery makes her realise shes better off selling words No prostitution or servant to the rich Gender roles are explored – explores the limited career choices for females back in the day. Theme of courage in women Belisa is presented through Allende’s point of view Belisa doesn’t let poverty break her down, she is strong.

Theme of Love: - The colonel - Her love for words and spelling - Explores love as a motivator - Love can lead to positive things when struggling - Passion - Amidst the poverty and loneliness she becomes recognized and it’s all due to her love and passion for words....