The riddle of Cantinflas
Stavans, Ilan.
The riddle of Cantinflas essays on Hispanic popular culture / [electronic resource] : Illan Stavans. - Rev. and expanded ed. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (232 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
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 -- Íloteroa! 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 -- Jose 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.
9780826352576 082635257X
Cantinflas, 1911-1993.
Kitsch--Latin America.
Popular culture--Latin America.
Electronic books.
F1408.3 / .S73 2012
306.098
The riddle of Cantinflas essays on Hispanic popular culture / [electronic resource] : Illan Stavans. - Rev. and expanded ed. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (232 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
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 -- Íloteroa! 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 -- Jose 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.
9780826352576 082635257X
Cantinflas, 1911-1993.
Kitsch--Latin America.
Popular culture--Latin America.
Electronic books.
F1408.3 / .S73 2012
306.098