The uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity [electronic resource] / by John A. Ochoa.
Material type: TextPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 244 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 860.9/353 22
- PQ7207.N37 O34 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.
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.
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