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The uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity [electronic resource] / by John A. Ochoa

Author:
Ochoa, John A. (John Andres), 1967-
Published:
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004.
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
x, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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.
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ISBN:
0292705735 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.
View MARC record | catkey: 19185727