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Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo
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Why Read Rulfo?
The essence of the rural Mexican voice
One of Mexico’s most widely read authors
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Rulfo’s fiction : influences
The Mexican Revolution (1910) and Cristero rebellion (1926—29)The Mexican Revolution (1910) and Cristero rebellion (1926—29)
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Local political leader Local political leader
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Personal identity and
Responsibility
The communal, collective responsibility and therefore
guilt of an entire community/society
Corrupt, corroding political power of
cacique
Catholic Church, which is often impotent (Cristero Rebellion) and therefore reinforces corruption
Turbulent history of revolution and rebellion in
Mexico
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Motifs: heat, decay, rain, night, darkness, silence, violence, sexuality, animals,
Polyphonic point of view and the postmodern fractured narrative structure
Allusion: historical, religious, literary
Tone, mood, diction, characterization
Conventions related to Conventions related to Contextual/Cultural contextContextual/Cultural context
Magical realism
Dia del muetre culture
References to time, timelessness and its relationship to memory
Features of modernism(as a literary movement)
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1) Departure from regional or indigenist themes
2)Highly experimental narrative structures
3)Intertextual allusions4)“lo real maravilloso” : magical realism
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1) Subjectivity/ impressionistic writing (stream of consciousness is an example)
2) Departure from 3rd omniscient narrators3) Blurring of genre distinctions4) Emphasis of fragmented forms/ discontinuous
narratives5) Tendency towards self-consciousness
(METAFICTION)6) Rejection of formal aesthetics7) Rejection of distinction between “High” (highly
educated, formal, classical) and “low” (pop culture or regional, local, indigenous) culture
1) Subjectivity/ impressionistic writing (stream of consciousness is an example)
2) Departure from 3rd omniscient narrators3) Blurring of genre distinctions4) Emphasis of fragmented forms/ discontinuous
narratives5) Tendency towards self-consciousness
(METAFICTION)6) Rejection of formal aesthetics7) Rejection of distinction between “High” (highly
educated, formal, classical) and “low” (pop culture or regional, local, indigenous) culture
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Rulfo asks readers to evaluate
a)Powerb)Faithc)Loyaltyd)Relationshipse)Communal identity vs personal identityf)Guilt: personal vs communalg)Free willh)Love
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Indigenous polytheistic
Aztec beliefs
Catholic Conquistatores
Catholic cultural context fused with indigenous and native folklore
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Rulfo’s photography
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