Blood, ink, and culture : miseries and splendors of the post-Mexican condition / Roger Bartra ; translated by Mark Alan Healey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartra, Roger.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Mexico.

Nationalism.

Right and left (Political science).

Mexico--Civilization.

Mexico.

Mexico--Relations--United States.

United States--Relations--Mexico.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this collection Bartra offers commentary on connections between popular culture, national ideology, and the state, assessing sociocultural events and processes in Mexico and analyzing Mexico's cultural and political relationship to the U.S.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-244) and index.

ISBN:

9786613063175

9781283063173

1283063174

9780822383369

0822383365

OCLC:

191222149