On Thursday 30 July, Dr William Rowlandson, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages, gave his annual Literary Workshop in the Cultural Centre ‘Casa de Piedra’ as part of the ‘Conferencias del Archivo de Indianos’ in Colombres, northern Spain.
William teaches the short stories of Juan Rulfo in the Level 4 module ‘LS308 The Modern Latin American Short Story’, exploring in particular Rulfo’s depiction of the unforgiving environment of Jalisco, the ubiquity of violence, and the oppression of the campesinos, as representative of the troubled decades following the Mexican Revolution.
Those interested in participation, for which registration is not necessary, can download these stories in PDF in advance.
The theme of this year’s workshop is the Mexican photographer and writer Juan Rulfo. William will be exploring Rulfo’s photography and the photographic image in key tales of the short story collection El Llano en Llamas (The Burning Plain) of 1953.
