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Blood, ink, and culture : miseries and splendors of the post-Mexican condition /

A compilation of political essays by one of Latin America's leading public intellectuals, Bartra explores the complex connections between popular culture, national ideology, and the state with the critical eye and optimistic outlook that has become his signature.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bartra, Roger (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
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Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Colección:Duke backfile
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.