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.

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

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

Inhalt
Introduction Humanizing the Hero Highlighting Women in History Mourning the European Legacy Redemption of the Present Conclusion