- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 244 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2004002879
- OCLC
- ssj0000266062
- Author
Ochoa, John A. (John Andres), 1967-
- Title
The uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity [electronic resource] / by John A. Ochoa.
- Imprint
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004.
- Edition
1st ed.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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