The riddle of Cantinflas essays on Hispanic popular culture /

"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...

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Main Author: Stavans, Ilan
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012, c1998.
Edition:Rev. and expanded ed.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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250 |a Rev. and expanded ed. 
260 |a Albuquerque :  |b University of New Mexico Press,  |c 2012, c1998. 
300 |a xiv, 208 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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). 
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. 
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