02717nam 2200601 a 450 991081515640332120230801225228.01-283-83544-40-8263-5257-X(CKB)2670000000277348(EBL)1104408(OCoLC)822042046(SSID)ssj0000759906(PQKBManifestationID)11402834(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000759906(PQKBWorkID)10800464(PQKB)11676959(MiAaPQ)EBC1104408(OCoLC)819816712(MdBmJHUP)muse19775(Au-PeEL)EBL1104408(CaPaEBR)ebr10629190(CaONFJC)MIL414794(EXLCZ)99267000000027734820120626h20121998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe riddle of Cantinflas[electronic resource] essays on Hispanic popular culture /Illan StavansRev. and expanded ed.Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press2012, c19981 online resource (224 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8263-5256-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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)."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 and its counterparts in the United States"--Provided by publisher.Hispanic popular culturePopular cultureLatin AmericaKitschLatin AmericaPopular cultureKitsch306.098Stavans Ilan553432MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815156403321The riddle of Cantinflas4100039UNINA