The Riddle of Cantinflas : Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture, Revised and Expanded Edition.

Ilan Stavans's collection of essays on kitsch and high art in the Americas makes a return with thirteen new colorful conversations that deliver Stavans's trademark wit and provocative analysis.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of New Mexico Press 2012.
Temas:
Cantinflas, > 1911-1993.
Cantinflas, > 1911-1993
Popular culture > Latin America.
Kitsch > Latin America.
Culture populaire > Amérique latine.
Kitsch > Amérique latine.
Kitsch
Popular culture
Latin America
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: íviva el kitsch!
  • Immigration and authenticity
  • Mother of exiles
  • A dream act deferred
  • Arrival: notes from an interloper
  • Unmasking Marcos
  • Íloterøa! or, the ritual of chance
  • Santa Selena
  • The novelist and the dictator
  • The riddle of Cantinflas
  • Mario Vargas Llosa: civilization versus barbarism
  • The art of the ephemeral
  • Sandra Cisneros: form over content
  • Civility and Latinos
  • José Guadalupe Posada: a profile
  • Conversations: Language and empire (with Verónica Albin); Against biography (with Donald Yates); Redrawing the historieta (with Neal Sokol).

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