Myriam Gurba teaches

Literary Necropolitics and the Mexican Imaginary: An Exploration of Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo

5 online sessions beginning May 5 at 4pm EST

In this course, participants will temporarily inhabit Comala, the literary ghost town conjured by Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo, a novel of magical realism set in thinly-veiled southern Jalisco.

As we read, participants will trace the development of one ghostly character, ultimately relating to that figure as a teacher. To deepen course participants’ understanding of the novel, I will deliver short lectures on Mexican, Indigenous, and intellectual histories that contextualize this iconoclastic work of fiction. — Myriam Gurba

Myriam Gurba is the author of CREEP: Accusation and Confessions, a Lambda Literary Award-winning essay collection. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Paris Review. Her grandfather once purchased an incomplete set of encyclopedias from Juan Rulfo. .