The uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ochoa, John A. (John Andres), 1967-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.