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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.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Details
- Description
- x, 244 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0292705735 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004002879
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library