The riddle of Cantinflas [electronic resource] : essays on Hispanic popular culture / Illan Stavans.
Stavans, Ilan.
2012
F1408.3 .S73 2012eb
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Title The riddle of Cantinflas [electronic resource] : essays on Hispanic popular culture / Illan Stavans.
Author Stavans, Ilan.
Edition Rev. and expanded ed.
ISBN 9780826352569 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780826352576 (e-book)
Publication Details Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012, c1998.
Language English
Description xiv, 208 p.
Call Number F1408.3 .S73 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.098
Summary "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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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