Héctor Melo Ruiz publishes article on Brazilian children’s literature and Vaccine Revolt
Ruiz is assistant professor of Spanish at Carleton.
Héctor Melo Ruiz, assistant professor of Spanish, published an article about Brazilian children’s literature and the Vaccine Revolt, a 1904 riot that took place in Rio de Janeiro. His article claims that these works romanticize the era, erasing the violence itself. It also shows how this literary endeavor remembers the riot as a simple souvenir of Rio’s Belle Époque, not as a milestone of popular resistance against the modernizing violence of the state.