Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction [electronic resource] : Failure, Trauma, and Loss /
Price, B.author.
Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss examines recent Mexican historical novels that highlight the mistakes of the nineteenth century for the purpose of responding to present crises.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Stellar Moments of Mexican History and the Rhetoric of Failure; 1 A Mexican Comedy of Errors in Jorge Ibargüengoitia's Self-Correcting Independence History; 2 Cross-Dressing the Second Empire in Fernando del Paso's Noticias del imperio; 3 The Voices of the Master in Enrique Serna's El seductor de la patria; 4 Paralysis and Redemption in Three Novels about the Mexican-American War; Conclusion: Bicentennial Reflections on Failure; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss examines recent Mexican historical novels that highlight the mistakes of the nineteenth century for the purpose of responding to present crises.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
America-History.
Latin America-Politics and government.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Literature   .
America-Literatures.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
History of the Americas.
Latin American Politics.
Latin American Culture.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
North American Literature.