Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss

by B. Price

Overview

Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss examines recent Mexican historical novels that highlight the mistakes of the nineteenth century for the purpose of responding to present crises.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349435661
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	06/08/2012
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	189
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Brian L. Price is Associate Professor of Spanish at Brigham Young University, USA.

Table of Contents

The Stellar Moments of Mexican History and the Rhetoric of Failure A Mexican Comedy of Errors in Jorge Ibargüengoitia's Self-Correcting Independence History Cross-Dressing the Second Empire in Fernando del Paso's Noticias del Imperio The Voices of the Master in Enrique Serna's El Seductor de la Patria Paralysis and Redemption in Three Novels about the Mexican-American War Bicentennial Reflections on Failure

Editorial Reviews

"Elegantly written and meticulously researched, Brian Price's Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction provides an original perspective on this important literary tendency within the context of modern-day Mexico."

- Kristine Ibsen, Michael P. Grace II Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Notre Dame

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