Latin American History Seminar: ‘Sembradores incansables de todo germen de progreso’: Biblical Metaphors of Post-Revolutionary Educational Reform in the Illustrations of Diego Rivera and Fiction of Juan Rulfo (Mexico, 1926-1953)

Tuesday 25 April, 5:00pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
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Convener: Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Lucy O’Sullivan is a third year DPhil Candidate in Modern and Medieval Languages at Trinity College, Oxford. Her doctoral dissertation entitled Diego Rivera and Juan Rulfo: Post-revolutionary Body Politics (1920-1965) explores evolving intellectual and aesthetic interpretations of the revolutionary nation in post-revolutionary Mexico through a comparative reading of representations of the body in the murals of Diego Rivera and the fictional and photographic works of Juan Rulfo.