Samuel Steinberg is Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Photopoetics at Tlatelolco: Afterimages of Mexico, 1968.

"Juan Rulfo has been studied by many critics of Mexican literature but never in relation to the question of the discipline of Hispanism or how and to what purpose Mexican literature is studied in universities in the United States. Steinberg's use of canonical theory (Derrida, Freud, etc.) is unique as well, as is the study of cinema as it pertains to Rulfo." — Rebecca Janzen, author of Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production"Makes a highly original and significant contribution to the understanding of both Mexican and Latin American literature, literary history, and literary criticism by calling attention to the way literature has traditionally been placed at the service of duty and debt." — Ryan Long, author of Queer Exposures: Sexuality and Photography in Roberto Bolaño's Fiction and Poetry

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Samuel Steinberg is Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Photopoetics at Tlatelolco: Afterimages of Mexico, 1968.

"Juan Rulfo has been studied by many critics of Mexican literature but never in relation to the question of the discipline of Hispanism or how and to what purpose Mexican literature is studied in universities in the United States. Steinberg's use of canonical theory (Derrida, Freud, etc.) is unique as well, as is the study of cinema as it pertains to Rulfo." — Rebecca Janzen, author of Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production"Makes a highly original and significant contribution to the understanding of both Mexican and Latin American literature, literary history, and literary criticism by calling attention to the way literature has traditionally been placed at the service of duty and debt." — Ryan Long, author of Queer Exposures: Sexuality and Photography in Roberto Bolaño's Fiction and Poetry

• Introduction 12345ConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Samuel Steinberg is Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Photopoetics at Tlatelolco: Afterimages of Mexico, 1968.

"Juan Rulfo has been studied by many critics of Mexican literature but never in relation to the question of the discipline of Hispanism or how and to what purpose Mexican literature is studied in universities in the United States. Steinberg's use of canonical theory (Derrida, Freud, etc.) is unique as well, as is the study of cinema as it pertains to Rulfo." — Rebecca Janzen, author of Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production"Makes a highly original and significant contribution to the understanding of both Mexican and Latin American literature, literary history, and literary criticism by calling attention to the way literature has traditionally been placed at the service of duty and debt." — Ryan Long, author of Queer Exposures: Sexuality and Photography in Roberto Bolaño's Fiction and Poetry

• Introduction 12345ConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex