Cult of Defeat in Mexico’s Historical Fiction
Failure, Trauma, and Loss
Authors: Price, B.
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Brian L. Price is Associate Professor of Spanish at Brigham Young University, USA.
- Reviews
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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
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction: The Stellar Moments of Mexican History and the Rhetoric of Failure
Pages 1-20
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A Mexican Comedy of Errors in Jorge Ibargüengoitia’s Self-Correcting Independence History
Pages 21-58
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Cross-Dressing the Second Empire in Fernando del Paso’s Noticias del imperio
Pages 59-97
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The Voices of the Master in Enrique Serna’s El seductor de la patria
Pages 99-134
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Paralysis and Redemption in Three Novels about the Mexican-American War
Pages 135-166
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Cult of Defeat in Mexico’s Historical Fiction
- Book Subtitle
- Failure, Trauma, and Loss
- Authors
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- B. Price
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Brian L. Price
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-00856-5
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137008565
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-00847-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-43566-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 189
- Topics
