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Hey group! Definitely going to have to get back into the swing of Wikipedia again! I checked out the selection of books in Koerner's library and Alejo Carpentier actually has about TWO SHELVES of books(!!); either by him or about him. I'll start this bibliography off with three that I picked up today and we can all add to it as we go. Advice if you haven't done a Wikipedia project like this: Always keep a record of EVERYTHING you come across in a book (ie: page numbers, sources, correct quotes, etc...) It's a waste of your time to have to go back and find a book for one quote on one page that you think may have been used out of context, etc... Also, if you use an indirect source, you may want to consider finding the primary source (online or in the library). Always easier when you know exactly what the original author was talking about. --Katie322 (talk) 04:36, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Janney, Frank. Alejo Carpentier and His Early Works. London: Tamesis Books Limited, 1981.

Mocega-González, Esther P. Alejo Carpentier: Estudios sobre su narrativa. España: Nova Scholar, 1980.

Wakefield, Steve. Carpentier's Baroque Fiction: Returning Medusa's Gaze. Great Britain: The Cromwell Press, 2004

Bibliografía

Hey group! It might take me a while to get into the Wikipedia swing of things considering I've never done this, but in the time being here are some articles I found that may be of some use to us.

1) Rae, Caroline. "In Havana and Paris The Musical Activities of Alejo Carpentier" pp. 373-395 Volume 89, Number 3, 2008 Music and Letters .

2) Cohen, Deborah N., "Retracing The Lost Steps The Cuban Revolution, the Cold War, and Publishing Alejo Carpentier in the United States". pp. 81-108 Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2003 CR: The New Centennial Review.

3) Kaup, Monika. "Becoming-Baroque Folding European Forms into the New World Baroque with Alejo Carpentier". pp. 107-149 Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 2005 CR: The New Centennial Review.

4) Rodriguez, EJ. "Alejo Carpentier's search for Amerindian and African origins". RLC-REVUE DE LITTERATURE COMPAREE 76 (2): 167-177 APR-JUN 2002.

5) Stimson, Frederick. "Alejo Carpentier, Cuban Novelist". Books Abroad, Vol. 33, No. 2 pp. 149-150.

6) Henighan, Stephan. "Two Paths to the Boom: Carpentier, Asturias, and the Performative Split". The Modern Language Review, Vol. 94, No. 4 pp. 1009-1024.

7) Timossi, J. "The marvellous royal man - Alejo Carpentier". CUADERNOS HISPANOAMERICANOS (649-50): 21-27 JUL-AUG 2004.

8) Kefala, Eleni. " The Dialectics of Heresy and Authority in Borges and Carpentier". pp. 342-349 Volume 122, Number 2, March 2007 (Hispanic Issue) MLN.

9) Firmat, GP. "Ese idioma: Alejo Carpentier's tongue-ties". SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES 61 (3): 183-197 FAL 2007. (this one seems to have some interesting facts about Carpentier's birth language which may help clear up a few issues brought up in discussion surrounding where Carpentier was born. exciting stuff!)

And then some books: I know this first book is on the wiki bibliography already, but it seems that if it's given a careful read we could get a lot of information out of it.

1) Shaw, Donald. Alejo Carpentier. Boston : Twayne Publishers, c1985.

2) Rodríguez, Alexis Márquez. Nuevas Lecturas de Alejo Carpentier. Caracas : Fondo Editorial de la Facultad de Humanidades y Educación, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 2004.

3) Navarro, Gabriel. Música y escritura en Alejo Carpentier. Alicante : Universidad de Alicante, 1999.

4) Selma, José. El 'Ultimo' Carpentier. Las Palmas : EXCMA. Mancomunidad de Cabildos, Plan Cultural, 1978.

He seemed to write a lot on music, something the article doesn't go into detail with. We may want to look into that. --Josiemitchell (talk) 07:37, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey here are some more finalized things, maybe? Let me know. article:

Firmat, GP. "Ese idioma: Alejo Carpentier's tongue-ties". SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES 61 (3): 183-197 FAL 2007.

(this one seems to have some interesting facts about Carpentier's birth language which may help clear up a few issues brought up in discussion surrounding where Carpentier was born. exciting stuff!)

And then a book:

Navarro, Gabriel. Música y escritura en Alejo Carpentier. Alicante : Universidad de Alicante, 1999.

--Josiemitchell (talk) 00:59, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliografía: para el 20 de enero

Libros:

Blanco, Luis. Alejo Carpentier : tientos y differencias, 1970

Gómez Mayo, Edmundo. Construcción y lenguaje en Alejo Carpentier

Janney, Frank. Alejo Carpentier and His Early Works. London: Tamesis Books Limited, 1981. (early works)

Martí, José. Un camino de medio siglo. Homenaje nacional al 70 aniversario de Alejo Carpentier, 1974

Martin, Claire Emilie. Alejo Carpentier y las crónicas de Indias: Orígenes de una escritura americana. Hanover, New Hampshire: Ediciones del Norte, 1995. (Style)

Mocega-González, Esther P. Alejo Carpentier: Estudios sobre su narrativa. España: Nova Scholar, 1980. (narrative)

Múller Bergh, Klaus. Asedios a Carpentier, 1972

Navarro, Gabriel. Música y escritura en Alejo Carpentier. Alicante : Universidad de Alicante, 1999. (music and writing)

Pancrazio, James J. The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban tradition. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Press, 2004. (Baroque style/Cuba)

Rodríguez, Alexis Márquez. Nuevas Lecturas de Alejo Carpentier. Caracas : Fondo Editorial de la Facultad de Humanidades y Educación, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 2004.

Santander, Carlos. Alejo Carpentier : viaje a la Semilla y otros relatos, 1971 --JordiHUBC (talk) 02:26, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Selma, José. El 'Ultimo' Carpentier. Las Palmas : EXCMA. Mancomunidad de Cabildos, Plan Cultural, 1978.

Shaw, Donald. Alejo Carpentier. Boston : Twayne Publishers, c1985.

Tusa, Bobs M. Alchemy of a Hero: A comparative study of the works of Alejo Carpentier and Mario Vargas Llosa. Spain: Albatros Hispanofila Ediciones, 1983. (comparison with Mario Vargas Llosa)

Wakefield, Steve. Carpentier's Baroque Fiction: Returning Medusa's Gaze. Great Britain: The Cromwell Press, 2004 (Baroque style) Katie322 (talk) 02:33, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Webb, Barbara J. Myth & History in Caribbean Fiction: Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris & Edouard Glissant. USA: University of Massachusets Press, 1992. (biography, analysis)

González Echevarría, Roberto. Alejo Carpentier: The Pligrim at Home. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1977. (biography) --Tniamath (talk) 04:40, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Artículos:

Carpentier, Alejo; Ethel S. Cohen. "Music in Cuba (1523-1900)". The Music Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Jul. 1947), pp. 365-380. [JSTOR] (Music)

Cohen, Deborah N., "Retracing The Lost Steps The Cuban Revolution, the Cold War, and Publishing Alejo Carpentier in the United States". pp. 81-108 Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2003 CR: The New Centennial Review.

Firmat, GP. "Ese idioma: Alejo Carpentier's tongue-ties". SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES 61 (3): 183-197 FAL 2007.

Henighan, Stephen. "Two Paths to the Boom: Alejo, Asturias, and the Performative Split". The Modern Language Review, Vol. 94, No. 4 (Oct. 1999), pp. 1009-1024. [JSTOR] (Latin boom of literature)

Kaup, Monika. "Becoming-Baroque Folding European Forms into the New World Baroque with Alejo Carpentier". pp. 107-149 Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 2005 CR: The New Centennial Review.

Kefala, Eleni. " The Dialectics of Heresy and Authority in Borges and Carpentier". pp. 342-349 Volume 122, Number 2, March 2007 (Hispanic Issue) MLN.

Labastida, Jaime. "Con Alejo Carpentier". Casa de las Américas, no.87, 1974

Mayo, Roberto Esquenazi. "Review: Música y narración en Alejo Carpentier". Revista Hispánica Moderna, Año 21, No. 2 (Apr. 1995), p. 146. [JSTOR] (Music)

Múller Bergh, Klaus. Alejo Carpentier : Estudio biográfico-critico, 1972 Katie322 (talk) 16:14, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth. "The Haitian Revolution in Interstices and Shadows: A Re-Reading of Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World. Research in African Literatures, Vol. 35, No. 2, Haiti, 1804-2004: Literature, Culture, and Art (Summer 2004), pp. 114-127. [JSTOR] (Criticism for The Kingdom of this World)

Rae, Caroline. "In Havana and Paris The Musical Activities of Alejo Carpentier" pp. 373-395 Volume 89, Number 3, 2008 Music and Letters .

Rodriguez, EJ. "Alejo Carpentier's search for Amerindian and African origins". RLC-REVUE DE LITTERATURE COMPAREE 76 (2): 167-177 APR-JUN 2002.

Stimson, Frederick S. "Alejo Carpentier, Cuban Novelist". Books Abroad, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Spring 1959), pp. 149-150. [JSTOR] (Information on Carpentier's life)

Timossi, J. "The marvellous royal man - Alejo Carpentier". CUADERNOS HISPANOAMERICANOS (649-50): 21-27 JUL-AUG 2004.

Unruh, Vicky. "The Performing Spectator in Alejo Carpentier's Fictional World". Hispanic Review, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Winter 1998), pp. 57-77. [JSTOR] (Role of the reader) Katie322 (talk) 02:33, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vélez-Sainz, Julio. "El cuerpo político: Carnaval, corporeidad y revolución en El reino de este mundo de Alejo Carpentier". Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año 31, No. 62 (2005), pp. 181-193. [JSTOR] (Politics in The Kingdom of This World) Katie322 (talk) 02:41, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Short List:

Libros

Firmat, GP. "Ese idioma: Alejo Carpentier's tongue-ties". SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES 61 (3): 183-197 FAL 2007.

Navarro, Gabriel. Música y escritura en Alejo Carpentier. Alicante : Universidad de Alicante, 1999.

Pancrazio, James J. The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban tradition. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Press, 2004.

Shaw, Donald. Alejo Carpentier. Boston : Twayne Publishers, c1985.

Wakefield, Steve. Carpentier's Baroque Fiction: Returning Medusa's Gaze. Great Britain: The Cromwell Press, 2004

Webb, Barbara J. Myth & History in Caribbean Fiction: Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris & Edouard Glissant. USA: University of Massachusets Press, 1992. (biography, analysis)

González Echevarría, Roberto. Alejo Carpentier: The Pligrim at Home. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1977. (biography) --Tniamath (talk) 04:40, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Artículos

Cohen, Deborah N., "Retracing The Lost Steps The Cuban Revolution, the Cold War, and Publishing Alejo Carpentier in the United States". pp. 81-108 Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2003 CR: The New Centennial Review.

Henighan, Stephen. "Two Paths to the Boom: Alejo, Asturias, and the Performative Split". The Modern Language Review, Vol. 94, No. 4 (Oct. 1999), pp. 1009-1024. [JSTOR]

Kaup, Monika. "Becoming-Baroque Folding European Forms into the New World Baroque with Alejo Carpentier". pp. 107-149 Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 2005 CR: The New Centennial Review.

Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth. "The Haitian Revolution in Interstices and Shadows: A Re-Reading of Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World. Research in African Literatures, Vol. 35, No. 2, Haiti, 1804-2004: Literature, Culture, and Art (Summer 2004), pp. 114-127. [JSTOR] (Criticism for The Kingdom of this World)

Rodriguez, EJ. "Alejo Carpentier's search for Amerindian and African origins". RLC-REVUE DE LITTERATURE COMPAREE 76 (2): 167-177 APR-JUN 2002.

Vélez-Sainz, Julio. "El cuerpo político: Carnaval, corporeidad y revolución en El reino de este mundo de Alejo Carpentier". Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año 31, No. 62 (2005), pp. 181-193. [JSTOR] Katie322 (talk) 06:10, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Article Ideas

Hey group!

Here are some article ideas that we can think about while reading through our sources:

-Add a music section (credit goes to Josie for this one!)

-Sections on magical realism and baroque style after the themes section?

-A section on Carpentier's connections to/thoughts about Haiti and Cuba (or other geographic regions)?

-Style of writing (we could look at a few select works and break them down)

-More quotes (?)

-Alphabetize the 'Further Reading' section

Feel free to add more ideas to this list. Also, if you have added something/completed something from the list, you're welcome to add a green 'done' checkmark by typing the word 'done' between double sets of curly brackets: Done That way the rest of the group will know what has been crossed off the list. --Katie322 (talk) 03:11, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Group member sections

Josie: Music

Hanne: Later life

Katie: Baroque style

Tristán: Early life

Jordi: Cuba and exile in France

*add other ideas/sections that you want to do as we go :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Katie322 (talk • contribs) 18:27, 20 January 2010 (UTC) --JordiHUBC (talk) 21:25, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]