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The riddle of Cantinflas : essays on Hispanic popular culture /

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"A 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. The collection has the power to go beyond common assumptions and helps us understand Mexican popular culture...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stavans, Ilan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
Edition:Rev. and expanded ed.
Subjects:
Kitsch > Latin America.
Popular culture > Latin America.
Cantinflas, > 1911-1993.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: íviva el kitsch!
  • Immigration and authenticity
  • Mother of exiles
  • A dream act deferred
  • Arrival: notes from an interloper
  • Unmasking Marcos
  • Íloteroa! 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
  • Jose Guadalupe Posada: a profile
  • Conversations: Language and empire (with Verónica Albin); Against biography (with Donald Yates); Redrawing the historieta (with Neal Sokol).