MARC Record from Library of Congress

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008 120626s2012 nmu b s001 0 eng
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020 $a9780826352569 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a9780826352576 (electronic)
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050 00 $aF1408.3$b.S73 2012
082 00 $a306.098$223
100 1 $aStavans, Ilan.
245 14 $aThe riddle of Cantinflas :$bessays on Hispanic popular culture /$cIllan Stavans.
246 30 $aHispanic popular culture
250 $aRev. and expanded ed.
260 $aAlbuquerque :$bUniversity of New Mexico Press,$c2012.
263 $a1212
300 $ap. cm.
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 -- 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.
650 0 $aPopular culture$zLatin America.
650 0 $aKitsch$zLatin America.
600 00 $aCantinflas,$d1911-1993.