The Cage Of Melancholy
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The Cage Of Melancholy
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Author : Roger Bartra
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Cage Of Melancholy written by Roger Bartra and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
"A wonderful and timely book. . . . Bartra brilliantly dissects the idea of 'being Mexican' upheld and imposed by the dominant forces in Mexico. But by extension, he asks readers everywhere if they recognize themselves in the national character proposed by the political elites of the U.S., France, U.S.S.R., or Nigeria. Bartra invites us all to step out of self-consciousness, take a good look at the metaphysics of 'national character' and then decide if they are true to you or to me. . . . A more relevant cultural exercise can not be proposed at this time."ÐÐCarlos FuentesIn The Cage of Melancholy, Roger Bartra explores the myth of the Mexican national character, and how this myth has been used to legitimize the exploitative modern national state. Between the time of the European Conquest and the Mexican Revolution, the Mexican was viewed as a peasant who was timid, childlike, resigned, lazy, and indifferent to death. This image was modified by industrialization. The peasant became a worker who was violent, sentimental, resentful, evasive, and betrayed by modernity. In both incarnations, the Mexican is stereotyped as melancholy, as are the members of the intellectual elite who construct this image. (Bartra links this notion of melancholy with European, Romantic ideas.) As Bartra shows how the myth was constructed and why, he skillfully weaves an extraordinary comparison with an axolotl. An axolotl is an actual larva-like aquatic amphibian, swimming in the waters of Mexico, which never metamorphosizes into a salamander, as expected, and which is misunderstood by both Europeans and Mexicans as they subject it to constant scrutiny. For Bartra, the axolotl is the Mexican, always on the brink of change, always misunderstood, always melancholic. The axolotl is a mirror of the Mexican national culture. To explain the ways that the myth of the typical Mexican serves political purposes, Bartra tells us about relajo, the slackening of norms that causes disorder. Mexicans advocate relajo as a strategy of self-defense as they try to disorder the mechanisms of domination. But when relajo is institutionalized into the myth of the national spirit, it functions as a diversion that deflects protests, thus ensuring the domination of the modern state. Moreover, those who question the state are accused of renouncing the national culture. Bartra argues that "Mexicans must get rid of this imagery which oppresses our consciences and fortifies the despotic domination of the so-called Mexican Revolutionary state." Drawing from the fields of history, literature, popular culture, psychoanalysis, evolution, and biology, he challenges us to look at problems in new ways.Roger Bartra is an anthropologist and sociologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the editor of La Jornada Semanal, a literary magazine.200 pp. 11 black-and-white illustrations. Cloth, $38.00ss
Cultural Studies
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Author : Lawrence Grossberg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-08-05
Cultural Studies written by Lawrence Grossberg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-05 with Art categories.
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Incurable Image
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Author : Tarek Elhaik
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2016-02-12
Incurable Image written by Tarek Elhaik and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-12 with Art categories.
From the 1990s onwards the 'ethnographic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and curators. While ethnography has been both generously and problematically re-appropriated by the art world, curation has seldom caught the conceptual attention of anthropologists. Based on two years of participant-observation in Mexico City, Tarek Elhaik addresses this lacuna by examining the concept-work of curatorial platforms and media artists. Taking his cue from ongoing critiques of Mexicanist aesthetics, and what Roger Bartra calls 'the post-Mexican condition', Elhaik conceptualises curation less as an exhibition-oriented practice within a national culture, than as a figure of care and an image of thought animating a complex assemblage of inter-medial practices, from experimental cinema and installations to curatorial collaborations. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Paul Rabinow, the book introduces the concept of the 'Incurable-Image,' an antidote to our curatorial malaise and the ethical substance for a post-social anthropology of images.
Disrupting Maize
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Author : Gabriela Méndez Cota
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-04-14
Disrupting Maize written by Gabriela Méndez Cota and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-14 with Political Science categories.
Theorizes the disruptions precipitated by corporate agricultural biotechnology in Mexican cultural politics.
Blood Ink And Culture
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Author : Roger Bartra
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2002-07-12
Blood Ink And Culture written by Roger Bartra and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-12 with History categories.
DIVIn 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./div
The Mexican Transition
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Author : Roger Bartra
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2013-01-15
The Mexican Transition written by Roger Bartra and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-15 with Political Science categories.
This book is a collection of essays on the Mexican transition to democracy that offers reflections on different aspects of civic culture, the political process, electoral struggles, and critical junctures.
Emotions Language And Identity On The Margins Of Europe
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Author : K. Giorgi
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-09-02
Emotions Language And Identity On The Margins Of Europe written by K. Giorgi and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-02 with History categories.
When a word describing an emotion is said to be untranslatable, is that emotion untranslatable also? This unique study focuses on three word-concepts on the periphery of Europe, providing a wide-ranging survey of national identity and cultural essentialism, nostalgia, melancholy and fatalism, the production of memory and the politics of hope.
Forging Mexico
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Author : Timothy E. Anna
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
Forging Mexico written by Timothy E. Anna and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with History categories.
"In this work, which is more historiography than monographic history, the author discusses various conventional theories and interpretations concerning the evolution of Mexican federalism and its role in 'forging Mexico.' Although the author accepts the lasting impact of federalism throughout Mexican history, he does not link it to popular nationalism and resistance as do Thomson and Mallon among others"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Blood Ink And Culture
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Author : Roger Bartra
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2002-07-12
Blood Ink And Culture written by Roger Bartra and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-12 with History categories.
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.
The Lost Cinema Of Mexico
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Author : Olivia Cosentino
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2022-02-08
The Lost Cinema Of Mexico written by Olivia Cosentino and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-08 with Performing Arts categories.
The Lost Cinema of Mexico is the first volume to challenge the dismissal of Mexican filmmaking during the 1960s through 1980s, an era long considered a low-budget departure from the artistic quality and international acclaim of the nation’s earlier Golden Age. This pivotal collection examines the critical implications of discovering, uncovering, and recovering forgotten or ignored films. This largely unexamined era of film reveals shifts in Mexican culture, economics, and societal norms as state-sponsored revolutionary nationalism faltered. During this time, movies were widely embraced by the public as a way to make sense of the rapidly changing realities and values connected to Mexico’s modernization. These essays shine a light on many genres that thrived in these decades: rock churros, campy luchador movies, countercultural superocheros, Black melodramas, family films, and Chili Westerns. Redefining a time usually seen as a cinematic “crisis,” this volume offers a new model of the film auteur shaped by productive tension between highbrow aesthetics, industry shortages, and national audiences. It also traces connections from these Mexican films to Latinx, Latin American, and Hollywood cinema at large. A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Contributors: Brian Price | Carolyn Fornoff | David S. Dalton | Christopher B. Conway | Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou | Ignacio Sánchez Prado | Dolores Tierney | Dr. Olivia Cosentino Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.