Big Mama's Funeral

"Big Mama's Funeral" (Spanish: Los funerales de la Mamá Grande) is a long short story by Gabriel García Márquez that satirizes Latin American life and culture. It displays the exaggeration associated with magic realism. Most of the place names mentioned come from Colombia, and "Big Mama" herself is an exaggeration of the 'cacique' (political boss), a familiar figure in Latin American history and tradition.

Big Mama's funeral is mentioned in García Márquez's famous novel One Hundred Years of Solitude soon after Melquiades' death, an example of the author's tendency to tie together his literary works.

Works by Gabriel García Márquez

Novels	In Evil Hour One Hundred Years of Solitude The Autumn of the Patriarch Chronicle of a Death Foretold Love in the Time of Cholera The General in His Labyrinth Of Love and Other Demons Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Short stories	Leaf Storm No One Writes to the Colonel Big Mama's Funeral Innocent Eréndira Strange Pilgrims The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Non-fiction	The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor Clandestine in Chile News of a Kidnapping Living to Tell the Tale

Speech	The Solitude of Latin America

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