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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.

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The Stellar Moments of Mexican History and the Rhetoric of Failure A Mexican Comedy of Errors in Jorge Ibargüengoitia´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

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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

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Brian L. Price is Associate Professor of Spanish at Brigham Young University, USA.

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