Title: The uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity
Description: "Going beyond the simple narrative of self-defeat, this book presents a model of failure as a source of knowledge and renewed self-awareness. Studying the relationship between national identity and failure, John Ochoa revisits the foundational texts of Mexican intellectual and literary history, the "national monuments," and offers a new vision of the pivotal events that echo throughout Mexican aesthetics and politics."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Failure (Psychology) in literature, Historiography, History and criticism, Literature and history, Mexican prose literature, National characteristics, Mexican, in literature, Mexican literature, history and criticism, National characteristics, mexican, National characteristics in literature, Mexico, historiography, Mexican literature, Mexico, history
Places: Mexico