TY - BOOK AU - Ochoa,John A. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity AV - PQ7207.N37 O34 2004eb U1 - 860.9/353 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Austin PB - University of Texas Press KW - Mexican prose literature KW - History and criticism KW - Failure (Psychology) in literature KW - National characteristics, Mexican, in literature KW - Literature and history KW - Mexico KW - Historiography KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2008; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10245787 ER -