Fictions of totality
Subtitle: the Mexican novel and the national-popular state
By: by Ryan F. Long.
Series: Purdue studies in Romance
Publisher: Purdue University
Published: 2008
Place of publication: West Lafayette, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781557534873
Subjects: Mexican fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; National characteristics, Mexican, in literature; Politics and literature -- Mexico
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The revolution will be novelized : Carlos Fuentes's La región mas transparente constructs a compensatory totality; title: Animating the popular : Fernando Del Paso's Jose Trigo and the ruins of totalizing thought; title: The stained plaza : Maria Luisa Mendoza's Con el, conmigo, con nosotros tres and the origins of the Mestizo nation; title: Totality in post-Tlatelolco Mexico : subjectivity and interpellation in Jorge Aguilar Mora's Si muero lejos de ti; title: The "machine of savage stories" : state, fiction, and totality in Hector Aguilar Camin's Morir en el golfo.