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Book SynopsisBartra offers commentary on connections between popular culture, national ideology, and the state, assessing socio-cultural events and processes in Mexico and analyzing Mexico's cultural and political relationship to the US.
Trade Review“I can think of no other Mexican thinker who has so consistently crossed disciplinary and national boundaries nor so effectively integrated intellectual and political milieus, laying bare the contradictions of the postrevolutionary state and the Mexican Left in the process.
Blood, Ink, and Culture pulls no punches. It should be read by anyone seeking to understand Mexico's postnational condition in the new millennium.”—Gilbert M. Joseph, editor of
Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History“Roger Bartra is one of Latin America’s premier cultural critics. With this intriguing, provocative, and insightful volume, an English-language audience will have the pleasure of reading some of his best and most challenging commentary.”—Irene Silverblatt, author of
Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial PeruTable of ContentsPreface
I. Blood and Ink
The Mexican Office: Miseries and Splendors of Culture
Tropical Kitsch in Blood and Ink
The Bridge, the Border, and the Cage: Cultural Crisis and Identity in the Post-Mexican Condition
Method in a Cage: How to Escape from the Hermeneutic Circle?
II. The Post-Mexican Condition
The Malinche’s Revenge: Toward a Postnational Identity
Missing Democracy
The Political Crisis of 1982
Journey to the Center of the Right
The Crisis of Nationalism
From the Charismatic Phallus to the Phallocratic Office
III. Miseries and Splendors of the Left
Our Own Nineteen Eighty-Four
Between Disenchantment and Utopia
Nationalism, Democracy, and Socialism
Is the Left Necessary?
Lombardo or Revueltas?
Marxism on the Gallows?
Great Changes, Modest Proposals
Postscript: The Dictatorship Was Not Perfect
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
