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Author Bartra, Roger, author.

Title Blood, ink, and culture : miseries and splendors of the post-Mexican condition / Roger Bartra ; translated by Mark Alan Healey
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 249 pages)
Series Duke backfile
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Nationalism -- Mexico
Right and left (Political science)
Right and left (Political science) -- Mexico
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico
Civilization
Nationalism
International relations
Right and left (Political science)
Politik
Kultur
Aufsatzsammlung
Politieke situatie.
Nationaal bewustzijn.
Buitenlandse betrekkingen.
Geschichte 1982-2002.
SUBJECT Mexico -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084546
Mexico -- Relations -- United States
United States -- Relations -- Mexico
Subject Mexico
United States
Mexiko
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822383369
0822383365
1283063174
9781283063173
9786613063175
6613063177