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The riddle of Cantinflas = essays on Hispanic popular culture /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The riddle of Cantinflas/ Illan Stavans.
Reminder of title:	essays on Hispanic popular culture /
Author:	Stavans, Ilan.
Published:	Albuquerque :University of New Mexico Press, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (232 p.).
Subject:	Kitsch - Latin America. -
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9780826352576 (electronic bk.)

The riddle of Cantinflas = essays on Hispanic popular culture /
Stavans, Ilan.

The riddle of Cantinflasessays on Hispanic popular culture /[electronic resource] :Illan Stavans. - Rev. and expanded ed. - Albuquerque :University of New Mexico Press,2012. - 1 online resource (232 p.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: íviva el kitsch! -- Immigration and authenticity -- Mother of exiles -- A dream act deferred -- Arrival: notes from an interloper -- Unmasking Marcos -- Íloteroa! or, the ritual ofchance -- Santa Selena -- The novelist and the dictator -- The riddle of Cantinflas -- Mario VargasLlosa: civilization versus barbarism -- The art of the ephemeral -- Sandra Cisneros: form over content -- Civility and Latinos --Jose Guadalupe Posada: a profile -- Conversations: Language and empire(with Verónica Albin); Against biography (with Donald Yates); Redrawing the historieta (with Neal Sokol).

"A collection of essays on kitsch and high art in the Americas makesa return with thirteen new colorful conversations that deliver Stavans's trademark wit and provocative analysis. The collection has the powerto go beyond common assumptions and helps us understand Mexican popular culture and its counterparts in the United States"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9780826352576 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

961614
Cantinflas,
1911-1993.Subjects--Topical Terms:

961615
Kitsch
--Latin America.

LC Class. No.: F1408.3 / .S73 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 306.098

The riddle of Cantinflas = essays on Hispanic popular culture /
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