Blood, Ink, and Culture: Miseries and Splendors of the Post-Mexican Condition - Softcover

Bartra, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822329239 ISBN 13: 9780822329237

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2002

Synopsis

Pens and swords, words and blows: for Roger Bartra, the culture of ink and the culture of blood offer two contrasting approaches to the political transformations of our time. In this compilation of essays, Bartra thinks through these transformations by tracing the complex interplay between popular culture, nationalist ideology, civil society, and the state in contemporary Mexico.

Written with verve over a period of twenty years, these essays—most translated into English here for the first time—suggest why Bartra has become one of Latin America’s leading public intellectuals. The essays cover a broad range of topics, from the canonical forms of Mexican culture to the meaning of postnational identity in a globalizing age, from the repercussions of the 1994 Zapatista uprising to the 2000 election of Vicente Fox and the end of the PRI’s seven-decade rule. Across this range of topics, Bartra imparts astute insights into a critical period of transition in Mexican history, stressing throughout the importance of democracy, the complexity of identity, and the vibrancy of the Left. In Blood, Ink, and Culture, he provides a stimulating inside look at political and intellectual life in the southern reaches of North America.

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From the Publisher:

"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. Blood, Ink, and Culture 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 Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History

"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 Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru

From the Back Cover:

"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 "Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru"

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0822329239
• ISBN 13: 9780822329237
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264