B. Price

Cult of Defeat in Mexico¿s Historical Fiction

Failure, Trauma, and Loss

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-43566-1
• 1st ed. 2012
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 258g
• ISBN-13: 9781349435661
• ISBN-10: 134943566X
• Artikelnr.: 45081014

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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