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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

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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
9780292705739
9780292719538
0292719531

LCCN

2004002879

OCLC

ocm54454679
54454679
SCSB-9182182

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library