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The uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity
- Title
- The uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity / by John A. Ochoa.
- Author
- Ochoa, John A. (John Andres), 1967-
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004.
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- Description
- x, 244 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the broken monument, or failure as a source of knowledge -- Ch. 1. Education and entropy in Bernal Diaz del Castillo's war to stop time -- Ch. 2. Compromised free markets in El Periquillo Sarniento : teachers, Albureros, and other shouters -- Ch. 3. Alexander von Humboldt's work on Mexico, cultural allegory, and the limits of vision -- Ch. 4. Jose Vasconcelos and the necessities of failure -- Ch. 5. The threats of collapse in Cambio de piel (or Fuentes the Frail) -- Ch. 6. Guillermo Gomez-Pena, bordering on madness and performing liminality -- Conclusion : General Santa Anna's leg and other failings.
- ISBN
- 0292705735 ((cl.) : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004002879
- OCLC
- ocm54454679
- SCSB-5132757
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries