Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Education and entropy in Bernal D?iaz del Castillo's War to stop time
  • Compromised free markets in El Periquillo Sarniento : teachers, albureros, and other shouters
  • Alexander von Humboldt's work on Mexico : cultural allegory, and the limits of vision
  • Jos?e Vasconcelos and the necessities of failure
  • The threats of collapse in Cambio de piel (or Fuentes the frail)
  • Guillermo G?omez-Pe?na : bordering on madness and performing liminality
  • General Santa Anna's leg and other failings.