Ochoa, John A.  1967- <br/><br/>
The uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity  [electronic resource] / 
by John A. Ochoa. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Austin :  University of Texas Press,  2004. 
 - x, 244 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2008. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mexican prose literature--History and criticism.<br/>Failure (Psychology) in literature.<br/>National characteristics, Mexican, in literature.<br/>Literature and history--Mexico.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Mexico--Historiography.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ7207.N37  / O34 2004eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>860.9/353