The uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity [electronic resource] / by John A. Ochoa.

By: Ochoa, John A. (John Andres), 1967-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 244 p. : illSubject(s): Mexican prose literature -- History and criticism | Failure (Psychology) in literature | National characteristics, Mexican, in literature | Literature and history -- Mexico | Mexico -- HistoriographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 860.9/353 LOC classification: PQ7207.N37 | O34 2004Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Education and entropy in Bernal Diaz del Castillo's War to stop time -- Compromised free markets in El Periquillo Sarniento : teachers, albureros, and other shouters -- Alexander von Humboldt's work on Mexico : cultural allegory, and the limits of vision -- Jose Vasconcelos and the necessities of failure -- The threats of collapse in Cambio de piel (or Fuentes the frail) -- Guillermo Gomez-Pena : bordering on madness and performing liminality -- General Santa Anna's leg and other failings.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.

Education and entropy in Bernal Diaz del Castillo's War to stop time -- Compromised free markets in El Periquillo Sarniento : teachers, albureros, and other shouters -- Alexander von Humboldt's work on Mexico : cultural allegory, and the limits of vision -- Jose Vasconcelos and the necessities of failure -- The threats of collapse in Cambio de piel (or Fuentes the frail) -- Guillermo Gomez-Pena : bordering on madness and performing liminality -- General Santa Anna's leg and other failings.

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