The riddle of Cantinflas
Subtitle: essays on Hispanic popular culture
By: Illan Stavans
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780826352569; 9780826352576
Subjects: Popular culture; Kitsch
Other titles: Hispanic popular culture
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: íviva el kitsch!; title: Immigration and authenticity; title: Mother of exiles; title: A dream act deferred; title: Arrival: notes from an interloper; title: Unmasking Marcos; title: Íloterøa! or, the ritual of chance; title: Santa Selena; title: The novelist and the dictator; title: The riddle of Cantinflas; title: Mario Vargas Llosa: civilization versus barbarism; title: The art of the ephemeral; title: Sandra Cisneros: form over content; title: Civility and Latinos; title: José Guadalupe Posada: a profile; title: Conversations: Language and empire (with Verónica Albin); Against biography (with Donald Yates); Redrawing the historieta (with Neal Sokol).