Cult of Defeat in Mexico’s Historical Fiction

1. Introduction: The Stellar Moments of Mexican History and the Rhetoric of Failure
Brian L. Price

2. A Mexican Comedy of Errors in Jorge Ibargüengoitia’s Self-Correcting Independence History
Brian L. Price

3. Cross-Dressing the Second Empire in Fernando del Paso’s Noticias del imperio

Brian L. Price

4. The Voices of the Master in Enrique Serna’s El seductor de la patria

Brian L. Price

5. Paralysis and Redemption in Three Novels about the Mexican-American War
Brian L. Price

6. Conclusion: Bicentennial Reflections on Failure
Brian L. Price

Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, History of the Americas, Latin American Politics, Latin American Culture, Postcolonial/World Literature, North American Literature