The riddle of Cantinflas : essays on Hispanic popular culture /
"Ilan Stavans's 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. "A Dream Act Deferred" discusses an issue that is at once and always topical in...
| Hovedforfatter: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
| Udgivet: |
Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2012.
|
| Udgivelse: | Rev. and expanded ed. |
| Serier: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Online adgang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=508794 |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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).