Utopian dreams, apocalyptic nightmares
Subtitle: globalization in recent Mexican and Chicano narrative
By: Miguel López-Lozano.
Publisher: Perdue University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: West Lafayette, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781557534842
Subjects: Mexican fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism; Globalization in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Utopian dreams, apocalyptic nightmares : rewriting Mexican history in the Times of NAFTA; title: The brave new world of Carlos Fuentes's Cristóbal Nonato : a critique of Mexican modernity; title: Cultural identity and dystopia in Alejandro Morales's The Rag Doll Plagues; title: The dream of Mestizo Mexico : memory and history in Carmen Boullosa's Cielos de la tierra; title: Surviving the Ecoapocalypse in Homero Aridjis's La leyenda de los soles and En quién piensas cuando haces el amor?; title: The angel of history and the postapocalyptic consciousness.