Rethinking Juan Rulfo's Creative World

Prose, Photography, Film

Add to my list

Edited by Nuala Finnegan and Dylan Brennan

Type

Studies

Subject

Others persons > Juan Rulfo

Keywords

Juan Rulfo, screenwriter, Mexico

Publishing date

2020

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures

1st publishing

2016

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 232 pages
6 ½ x 9 ½ inches (16.5 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-367-59843-3

User Ratings

(0 vote)

X

Average rating:

0	rating	= We can do without
0	rating	= Good book
0	rating	= Excellent book
0	rating	= Unique / a reference

Your rating: -

Book Presentation:
Though primarily known for his haunting, enigmatic novel Pedro Páramo and the unrelenting depictions of the failures of post-revolutionary Mexico in his short story collection, El Llano en llamas, Juan Rulfo also worked as scriptwriter on various collaborative film projects and his powerful interventions in the area of documentary photography ensure that he continues to inspire interest worldwide. Bringing together some of the most significant names in Rulfian scholarship, this anthology engages with the complexity and diversity of Rulfo’s cultural production. The essays in the collection bring the Rulfian texts into dialogues with other cultural traditions and techniques including the Japanese Noh or "mask" plays and modernist experimentation in the Irish language. They also deploy diverse theoretical frameworks that range from Roland Barthes’ work on studium and punctum in photography to Henri Lefebvre’s ideas on space and spatiality and the postmodern insights of Jean Baudrillard on the nature of the simulacrum and the hyperreal. In this way, innovative approaches are brought to bear on the Rulfian texts as a way of illuminating the rich tensions and anxieties they evoke about Mexico, about history, about art and about the human condition.

About the authors:
Dylan Brennan completed his PhD in the Centre for Mexican Studies, University College Cork. Nuala Finnegan is Professor in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at University College Cork where she is Director of the Centre for Mexican Studies.

See the publisher website: Routledge

See the complete filmography of Juan Rulfo on the website: IMDB ...