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"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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The riddle of Cantinflas: essays on Hispanic popular culture
2012, University of New Mexico Press
in English
- Rev. and expanded ed.
0826352561 9780826352569
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Table of Contents
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).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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