{{Infobox short story|author=[[Gabriel García Márquez]]|title=Big Mama's Funeral|title_orig=Los funerales de la Mamá Grande|orig_lang_code=es|genre=[[Magical realism]]|pub_date=1962|published_in=Los funerales de la Mamá Grande}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stavans |first1=Ilan |title=Gabriel Garcia Marquez |date=2010 |publisher=Salem Press |location=Pasadena, California |page=105 |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=guest&db=nlebk&AN=364974&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=s8436643&&profile=edsfolio&authtype=sso&groupid=main&profile=edsfolio |access-date=6 July 2024}}</ref>
"'''Big Mama's Funeral'''" ({{langx|es|Los funerales de la Mamá Grande}}) is a [[short story]] by [[Gabriel García Márquez]]. In the story, an unidentified narrator<ref name="Sims (1978)">{{cite journal |last1=Sims |first1=Robert |title=The Creation of Myth in Garcia Marquez' "Los Funerales de la Mama Grande" |journal=Hispania |date=1978 |volume=61 |issue=1 |page=15 |doi=10.2307/339941 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/339941 |access-date=6 July 2024|url-access=subscription }}</ref> tells a mythical account of a historical event summarized on the first page. Through the exaggerated size of Big Mama herself and her extravagant birthday party, the story satirizes corruption in [[Latin America]] at all levels of power.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bell-Villada |first1=Gene |title=Garcia Marquez: The Man and His Work |date=2010 |publisher=Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press |location=Chapel Hill, North Carolina |page=128 |edition=2nd |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=guest&db=nlebk&AN=358033&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=s8436643&&profile=edsfolio&authtype=sso&groupid=main&profile=edsfolio |access-date=6 July 2024}}</ref> The story is told in a "highly oral style of a public storyteller or carnival barker."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bell-Villada |first1=Gene |title=Garcia Marquez: The Man and His Work |date=2010 |publisher=Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press |location=Chapel Hill, North Carolina |page=128 |edition=2nd |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=guest&db=nlebk&AN=358033&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=s8436643&&profile=edsfolio&authtype=sso&groupid=main&profile=edsfolio |access-date=6 July 2024}}</ref> The story is set in the mythical town of [[Macondo]], the setting of García Márquez's famous novel ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'' ({{langx|es|Cien años de soledad}}). ''Big Mama's Funeral'' is one of only three of the author's short stories set in the town.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stavans |first1=Ilan |title=Gabriel Garcia Marquez |date=2010 |publisher=Salem Press |location=Pasadena, California |page=105 |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=guest&db=nlebk&AN=364974&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=s8436643&&profile=edsfolio&authtype=sso&groupid=main&profile=edsfolio |access-date=6 July 2024}}</ref>
== Publication history == ''Big Mama's Funeral'' was first published in 1962 by Universidad Veracruzana Press in a collection of short stories also entitled ''Los funerales de la Mamá Grande.''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=García Márquez |first=Gabriel |title=Los funerales de la Mamá Grande |publisher=[[Universidad Veracruzana]] |year=1962 |location=Xalapa |language=es |oclc=3339507}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Los funerales de la Mamá Grande |url=https://www.gavilan.edu/academic/spanish/gaspar/html/25_02.html |access-date=2023-02-28 |website=www.gavilan.edu}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Stavans |first1=Ilan |title=Gabriel Garcia Marquez |date=2010 |publisher=Salem Press |location=Pasadena, California |page=105 |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=guest&db=nlebk&AN=364974&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=s8436643&&profile=edsfolio&authtype=sso&groupid=main&profile=edsfolio |access-date=6 July 2024}}</ref> It is the final story in the collection.<ref name="Sims (1978)">{{cite journal |last1=Sims |first1=Robert |title=The Creation of Myth in Garcia Marquez' "Los Funerales de la Mama Grande" |journal=Hispania |date=1978 |volume=61 |issue=1 |page=15 |doi=10.2307/339941 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/339941 |access-date=6 July 2024|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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