Bartra Blood, Ink, and Culture

Miseries and Splendors of the Post-Mexican Condition
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8336-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartra, Roger

Weitere Mitwirkende

Healey, Mark A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

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

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Bartra is Senior Research Fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. An anthropologist, sociologist, and respected public intellectual, he has served as editor of the Mexican literary weekly La Jornada Semanal and is a regular contributor to literary and political journals in Mexico, Spain, Japan, England, and the United States. He is also the author of numerous books in Spanish; those available in English include Wild Men in the Looking Glass: The Mythic Origins of European Otherness and The Cage of Melancholy: Identity and Metamorphosis in the Mexican Character.

Mark Alan Healey is Assistant Professor of History and International Studies at the University of Mississippi.