The riddle of Cantinflas essays on Hispanic popular culture /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2012, c1998.
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| Edition: | Rev. and expanded ed. |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10629190 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: βiviva el kitsch!
- Immigration and authenticity
- Mother of exiles
- A dream act deferred
- Arrival: notes from an interloper
- Unmasking Marcos
- βIloter²a! 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
- Josβe Guadalupe Posada: a profile
- Conversations: Language and empire (with Verβonica Albin); Against biography (with Donald Yates); Redrawing the historieta (with Neal Sokol).