Confronting History and Modernity in Mexican Narrative [Hardcover]

Guerrero focuses on a selection of Mexican historical novels that are particularly revealing of literary trends during the last three decades. The study addresses the balancing act of Mexican writers as they trace a national identity in the face of globalization and respond to modernization on their own terms.Introduction Humanizing the Hero Highlighting Women in History Mourning the European Legacy Redemption of the Present Conclusion

The analysis is lucid, insightful, and far-reaching, covering themes of memory, inquisition, conquest, power, syncretism, transculturation, biopolitics, and ecology... Recommended. - CHOICE

ELISABETH GUERRERO?is Associate Professor of Spanish at Bucknell University, USA.