"Southern Gothic: Rosario Castellanos, Chiapas, and the Monsters of Land Reform"

Professor Ericka Beckman is the author of the book Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America's Export Age. Her research focuses on narratives of capitalist modernity and modernization in 19th and 20th century Latin America. In this lecture, she will be presenting part of her current project Vanishing Horizons: Reading Rural Modernity in Latin America, which explores how literary fiction imagined the making and unmaking of rural worlds in the long 20th century.