{"product_id":"blood-ink-and-culture-9780822329237","title":"Blood Ink and Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBartra 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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. \u003ci\u003eBlood, Ink, and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eReclaiming the Political in Latin American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eMoon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003e I. Blood and Ink \u003cbr\u003e The Mexican Office: Miseries and Splendors of Culture\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Tropical Kitsch in Blood and Ink\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Bridge, the Border, and the Cage: Cultural Crisis and Identity in the Post-Mexican Condition \u003cbr\u003e Method in a Cage: How to Escape from the Hermeneutic Circle? \u003cbr\u003e II. The Post-Mexican Condition \u003cbr\u003e The Malinche’s Revenge: Toward a Postnational Identity \u003cbr\u003e Missing Democracy \u003cbr\u003e The Political Crisis of 1982 \u003cbr\u003e Journey to the Center of the Right \u003cbr\u003e The Crisis of Nationalism \u003cbr\u003e From the Charismatic Phallus to the Phallocratic Office \u003cbr\u003e III. Miseries and Splendors of the Left \u003cbr\u003e Our Own Nineteen Eighty-Four \u003cbr\u003e Between Disenchantment and Utopia \u003cbr\u003e Nationalism, Democracy, and Socialism \u003cbr\u003e Is the Left Necessary? \u003cbr\u003e Lombardo or Revueltas? \u003cbr\u003e Marxism on the Gallows? \u003cbr\u003e Great Changes, Modest Proposals \u003cbr\u003e Postscript: The Dictatorship Was Not Perfect \u003cbr\u003e Glossary \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406030152023,"sku":"9780822329237","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822329237.jpg?v=1730494301","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/blood-ink-and-culture-9780822329237","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}