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020 _a9780826352576
020 _a082635257X
020 _z9780826352569 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 _z0826352561
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
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050 0 0 _aF1408.3
_b.S73 2012
082 0 0 _a306.098
_223
100 1 _aStavans, Ilan.
245 1 4 _aThe riddle of Cantinflas
_h[electronic resource] :
_bessays on Hispanic popular culture /
_cIllan Stavans.
250 _aRev. and expanded ed.
260 _aAlbuquerque :
_bUniversity of New Mexico Press,
_c2012.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (232 p.)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPreface: 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).
520 _a"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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aKitsch
_zLatin America.
650 0 _aPopular culture
_zLatin America.
600 0 0 _aCantinflas,
_d1911-1993.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826352576/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c36303
_d36303