The Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture

by Ilan Stavans

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

Provoctive, sharp, intelligent...

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...

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!