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

Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor Brian L. Price is Associate Professor of Spanish at Brigham Young University, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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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

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"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

Product details

• Authors: B Price, B. Price
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.06.2012
• EAN: 9781349435661
• ISBN: 978-1-349-43566-1
• No. of pages: 199
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; B, Literature, Cultural Studies, Politics & government, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, History of the Americas, World Literature, North America (USA and Canada), Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, America—History, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, Latin America—Politics and government, South & Central America (including Mexico), Latin America, Latin American Politics, Postcolonial/World Literature, America—Literatures, North American Literature, American Politics, America;Empire;fiction;novel