[PDF.29zm] The Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture

The Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture

[PDF.hp53] The Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture

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 | #15619691 in Books |  1998-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.69 x6.00l, | File type: PDF | 167 pages

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||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Pompous|By Michael Chesser|I think these essays are pompous, overblown, self-conscious, and self-centered. The essays do not convey much information. They are exercises in writing, exercises in reading. I think an interesting idea for a book would be one that actually conveys some concept and understanding of Mexican culture to an outsider with an interest and sufficient fam| |"I think he has one of the best grips around on what makes Spanish America tick and he is most sensitive about its relationship to the rest of the world." -- Gregory Rabassa|About the Author|Ilan Stavans is the Lewi

From one of our foremost cultural critics comes a provocative collection of essays on kitsch and high art in the Americas. Ilan Stavans examines the delightful if torturous relationship between a Europeanized elite and the hybrid masses in a continent he sees as imprisoned in the labyrinth of identity. In "Santa Selena," for example, Stavans explores the beatification of the martyred Tejana singer in the context of American pop iconography. His interest is not in Selena'...

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