The uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity / by John A. Ochoa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ochoa, John A. (John Andres), 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican prose literature--History and criticism.

Mexican prose literature.

Failure (Psychology) in literature.

National characteristics, Mexican, in literature.

Literature and history--Mexico.

Literature and history.

Mexico--Historiography.

Mexico.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004.

Summary:

A fascinating study of a nation's volatile journey towards a sense of self, The Uses of Failure elegantly weaves ethical issues, the philosophical implications of language, and a sociocritical examination of Latin American writing for a sparkling addition to the dialogue on global literature.

Contents:

Education and entropy in Bernal Díaz 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

José Vasconcelos and the necessities of failure

The threats of collapse in Cambio de piel (or Fuentes the frail)

Guillermo Gómez-Peña : bordering on madness and performing liminality

General Santa Anna's leg and other failings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-232) and index.

ISBN:

0292705735

OCLC:

54454679

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