Cult of Defeat in Mexicos Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss [Paperback]

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.The Stellar Moments of Mexican History and the Rhetoric of Failure A Mexican Comedy of Errors in Jorge Ibarg?engoitia'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

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