Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. I. Blood and Ink
5. The Mexican Office:Miseries and Splendors of Culture Tropical Kitsch in Blood and Ink 1
6. Tropical Kitsch in Blood and Ink 15
7. The Bridge, the Border, and the Cage: Cultural Crisis and Identity in the Post-Mexican Condition 44
8. Method in a Cage: How to Escape from the Hermeneutic Circle? 51
9. II. The Post-Mexican Condition
10. The Malinche’s Revenge: Toward a Postnational Identity 61
11. Missing Democracy 65
12. The Political Crisis of 1982 78
13. Journey to the Center of the Right 90
14. The Crisis of Nationalism 104
15. From the Charismatic Phallus to the Phallocratic Office 133
16. III. Miseries and Splendorsof the Left
17. Our Own Nineteen Eighty-Four 139
18. Between Disenchantment and Utopia 155
19. Nationalism, Democracy, and Socialism 160
20. Is the Left Necessary? 180
21. Lombardo or Revueltas? 191
22. Marxism on the Gallows 203
23. Great Changes, Modest Proposals 216
24. Postscript
25. The Dictatorship Was Not Perfect 223
26. Glossary 235
27. Bibliography 239
28. Index 245