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The Fiction of Juan Rulfo - Irony, Revolution and Postcolonialism (Hardcover, New)
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The Fiction of Juan Rulfo - Irony, Revolution and Postcolonialism (Hardcover, New)
Series: Monografias A
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This is the first extended, English-language study to focus
exclusively on the fiction of Juan Rulfo in over twenty years,
analyzing a selection of short stories from Rulfo's collection and
also two of the main characters of hismasterpiece, Pedro Paramo.
This is the first extended, English-language study to focus
exclusively on the fiction of Juan Rulfo in over twenty years. It
contains innovative analyses of a selection of short stories from
Rulfo's collection, El llano en llamas (1953). It also examines in
great depth two of the main characters of Pedro Paramo (1955),
Rulfo's masterpiece and only novel. The book shows how Rulfo's
works can be read as exercises in irony directed againstthe
rhetoric of post-Revolutionary Mexican governments. It also
demonstrates the relevance of certain legacies of colony in Rulfo's
use of irony. Successive Mexican governments promoted a vision of
post-Revolutionary society founded on specific notions of
ethnicity, family, nation, education, religion and rural politics.
The author combines examination of the speeches, images and
newspaper articles which disseminated this vision with incisive
literary analyses of Rulfo's work. These analyses are informed both
by his original theory of irony, based on "internal" and "external"
referents, and by existing postcolonial theories, particularly
those of Homi K. Bhabha. Amit Thakkar is a Lecturer in Hispanic
Studies at Lancaster University.
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