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



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Autore: Stavans Ilan Visualizza persona
Titolo: The riddle of Cantinflas [[electronic resource] ] : essays on Hispanic popular culture / / Illan Stavans Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-83544-4
0-8263-5257-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910815156403321
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