{"product_id":"the-fiction-of-juan-rulfo-9781855662384","title":"The Fiction of Juan Rulfo","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003ePedro Páramo\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eEl llano en llamas\u003c\/i\u003e (1953). It also examines in great depth two of the main characters of \u003ci\u003ePedro Páramo\u003c\/i\u003e (1955), Rulfo's masterpiece and only novel.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Amit Thakkar is a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Lancaster University.","brand":"Amit Thakkar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280273158395,"sku":"9781855662384","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781855662384.jpg?v=1772487810","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-fiction-of-juan-rulfo-9781855662384","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}