| This dissertation compares the short stories of William Faulkner, Joao Guimaraes Rosa, and Juan Rulfo, three masters of modernism in the 20th Century in the Americas. The comparison is done in terms of their unique elaboration of the tensions and problems caused by the expanding waves of modernity into the areas these three authors chose to set their fiction: rural communities placed at the margins of regions already marginal in national terms. |
