Blood, Ink, and Culture

“Roger Bartra always offers unparalleled insight into Mexico’s current political life; he is perhaps the most important political and social analyst working in Latin America today. . . . The essays come to us through the superb translation of Mark Alan Healey. He provides his own footnotes to help explain some references, and he has added an excellent bibliography and index. These tools will help scholars, students, and the general public read these essays for years to come.” - Patrick J. McNamara, New Mexico Historical Review

"Roger Barta is considered one of Latin America's foremost cultural critics. Blood, Ink, and Culture . . . offers incisive and iconoclastic analysis of Mexico's troubled transition to democracy after more than seventy years of single party rule. . . . Barta's style is appropriately playful and ironic." - Adrian A. Bantjes , History

“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