The riddle of Cantinflas : essays on Hispanic popular culture /

"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. "A Dream Act Deferred" discusses an issue that is at once and always topical in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stavans, Ilan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
Edición:Rev. and expanded ed.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Cantinflas, > 1911-1993.
Popular culture > Latin America.
Kitsch > Latin America.
Culture populaire > Amérique latine.
Kitsch > Amérique latine.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
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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