Fuentes, Carlos

Because Spanish American apocalyptic novels are a neglected sub-genre, this dissertation contends that this neglect is unjustified, and makes a contribution to the field. The project considers in particular modern Mexican apocalyptic novels written in the late 1980s and 1990s: C…

My dissertation focuses on the second generation of novels of the Mexican Revolution, and on the related debate concerning the death of the revolutionary ideals of freedom, justice, and land reform. Some were pronounced dead after the 1940s. Through the analysis of 4 novels of t…