Pedro Pramo by Juan Rulfo.

Mexican 1955 Pedro=Peter Pramo= wide barren plane

Comala

comal

Rulfo fotgrafo / photographer

http://www.clubcultura.com/clubliteratura/clubescrit

Mexican views of death

Guadalupe Posada

http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/11/02/the-calav

The day of the dead El da de los muertos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUUAgEWeYeI

http://www.voxxi.com/day-of-the-dead-mexican-halloween-2/

Porfirio Daz--El Porfiriato

1876-1880 1884-1911 pan, o palo los cientficos

caciques--local war lords

Mexican Revolution 19111921[?]

Pancho Villa y Emiliano Zapata

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_wAoEqeHKU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_wAoEqeHKU

Religion in Mexico La guerra cristera 1926-29

Rural Mexico -Colima area

HACIENDA

REBOZO

SAYULA

First reading assignment: sections 1-15: some versions are numbered, some indicate a new section with a Capital letter in a different font. But just in case: stop at the section that begins A horse galloped by Un caballo pas al galope If you have the Margaret Sayers Peden edition, section 12 begins on p. 22 , Whats happened, I asked.

childhood memory vs. adult reality images of water read sections 16-37 [stop at A heavy rain / Al amanecer, gruesas gotas