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

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.

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