The riddle of Cantinflas [[electronic resource] ] : essays on Hispanic popular culture / / Illan Stavans

• Autore: Stavans Ilan
• Pubblicazione: Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2012, c1998
• Edizione: Rev. and expanded ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.098
• Soggetto topico: Popular culture - Latin America; Kitsch - Latin America
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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).
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Hispanic popular culture
• Titolo autorizzato: The riddle of Cantinflas
• ISBN: 1-283-83544-4; 0-8263-5257-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786338903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II