The riddle of Cantinflas [electronic resource] : essays on Hispanic popular culture / Illan Stavans.
Publication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012, c1998.Edition: Rev. and expanded edDescription: xiv, 208 pOther title:- Hispanic popular culture
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- F1408.3 .S73 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: �iviva el kitsch! -- Immigration and authenticity -- Mother of exiles -- A dream act deferred -- Arrival: notes from an interloper -- Unmasking Marcos -- �Iloter�a! 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 -- Jos�e Guadalupe Posada: a profile -- Conversations: Language and empire (with Ver�onica 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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