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The riddle of Cantinflas : essays on Hispanic popular culture / Illan Stavans.
LIBRA F1408.3 .S73 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stavans, Ilan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Latin America.
- Popular culture.
- Kitsch.
- Latin America.
- Kitsch--Latin America.
- Cantinflas, 1911-1993.
- Cantinflas.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and expanded edition.
- Other Title:
- Hispanic popular culture
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- "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.
- 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).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826352569
- 0826352561
- 9780826352576
- 082635257X
- OCLC:
- 797969871
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