The essays on Hispanic popular culture Stavans, Ilan. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography biography Electronic books. nmu Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press 2012, c1998 2012 1998 Rev. and expanded ed. monographic eng

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xiv, 208 p. "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. Preface: �iviva el kitsch! -- Immigration and authenticity -- Mother of exiles -- A dream act deferred -- Arrival: notes from an interloper -- Unmasking Marcos -- �Iloter�a! 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 -- Jos�e Guadalupe Posada: a profile -- Conversations: Language and empire (with Ver�onica Albin); Against biography (with Donald Yates); Redrawing the historieta (with Neal Sokol). Illan Stavans. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. cl----- Cantinflas 1911-1993 Popular culture Latin America Kitsch Latin America F1408.3 .S73 2012eb 306.098 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10629190 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10629190 CaPaEBR 120626 ebr10629190