Open AccessSocial Isolation as a Cause of Incest in Latin American Fiction
Author(s) -
Sara Abderrazag,
Lynda Kazi-Tani
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of english language and literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2368-2132
DOI - 10.17722/jell.v11i1.407
Subject(s) - solitude , garcia , latin americans , isolation (microbiology) , social isolation , psychology , sociology , history , social psychology , humanities , literature , art , philosophy , linguistics , microbiology and biotechnology , psychotherapist , biology
In his One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), the Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez depicts the Buendia family, whose members seem to have a great difficulty marrying and developing sexual relationships with characters outside this family. Marquez portrays these characters as such in order to represent incest and connect it with the social behavior of individuals. The present paper, then, is an attempt to prove that through depicting male as well as female characters as unable to establish healthy relationships with people outside the family, Marquez seems to show that social isolation is one of the key causes to social aberration.