The Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture
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Book Overview
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 the dialogue of Hispanic popular culture: immigration. This essay generated a vociferous response when first published in The Chronicle of Higher Education as the issue of immigration...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0826352561
ISBN13:9780826352569
Release Date:December 2012
Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
Customer Reviews
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Provoctive, sharp, intelligent...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Stavans is a wonderful commentator of Latin American civilization. He is sharp, urbane, erudite. I love his style. I think it is even tender.
Excellent essays. Stavans has a unique viewpoint...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
I loved these essays. Stavans is sharp, intelligent, uncompromising. His views on Cantinflas and Subcomandante Marcos are through-provoking and his piece on Sandra Cisneros finally placed her in the right perspective. A wonderful read!
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