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- catalog abstract "From one of our foremost cultural critics comes a provocative collection of essays on politics and popular culture in Mexico and the Hispanic community in the United States. 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. Similarly, Stavans's portraits of Jose Guadalupe Posada, Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo, Sandra Cisneros, Cantinflas, and Carlos Fuentes are less about these luminaries than about what people have turned them into. His search is not for the idol but for the idolater, and for ways in which technology and the media refurbish reality. This theme is nowhere more tangible than in the essay on Subcomandante Marcos as a postmodern incarnation of Che Guevara and Abimael Guzman, a mythical guerrillero whose best weapons were not the bayonet and hand grenade but the fax machine and e-mail.".
- catalog contributor b10677606.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "From one of our foremost cultural critics comes a provocative collection of essays on politics and popular culture in Mexico and the Hispanic community in the United States. 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. Similarly, Stavans's portraits of Jose Guadalupe Posada, Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo, Sandra Cisneros, Cantinflas, and Carlos Fuentes are less about these luminaries than about what people have turned them into. His search is not for the idol but for the idolater, and for ways in which technology and the media refurbish reality. This theme is nowhere more tangible than in the essay on Subcomandante Marcos as a postmodern incarnation of Che Guevara and Abimael Guzman, a mythical guerrillero whose best weapons were not the bayonet and hand grenade but the fax machine and e-mail.".
- catalog description "Introduction / Allan Megill Hayden White Hans Kellner Franklin R. Ankersmit Georg G. Iggers Jerzy Topolski Jorn Rusen Arthur C. Danto Lionel Gossman Peter Burke Stephen Bann Ewa Domanska (self interview) Postscript / Lynn Hunt.".
- catalog extent "ix, 157 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Riddle of Cantinflas.".
- catalog identifier "0826318606 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0826319254 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Riddle of Cantinflas.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press,".
- catalog relation "Riddle of Cantinflas.".
- catalog spatial "Latin America.".
- catalog subject "306/.098 21".
- catalog subject "Cantinflas, 1911-1993.".
- catalog subject "F1408.3 .S73 1998".
- catalog subject "Kitsch Latin America.".
- catalog subject "Popular culture Latin America.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Allan Megill Hayden White Hans Kellner Franklin R. Ankersmit Georg G. Iggers Jerzy Topolski Jorn Rusen Arthur C. Danto Lionel Gossman Peter Burke Stephen Bann Ewa Domanska (self interview) Postscript / Lynn Hunt.".
- catalog title "The riddle of Cantinflas : essays on Hispanic popular culture / Ilan Stavans.".
- catalog type "text".