Umfang:
X, 233 S
Ausgabe:
1. ed.
ISBN:
9780292714502
,
9780292717121
Inhalt:
Melodrama as ambiguous signifier: Latin American telenovelas and Narco-dramas -- Seeing Xica and the Melodramatic unveiling of colonial desire -- Producing the global west through latin tales of seduction and enby -- Karen's seduction: the racial politics of appropriate dinner guests -- A mother's wrath and the complex disjuncturing of class -- Being narco: the evolution of a continental sensibility -- Saintly figures and icons: the migration of a continental dream -- La reina del sur: Gender, racial, and national contestations of regional identity -- Sex, drugs, and cumbia: the hybrid nature of culture -- Conclusion: the postcolonial politics of melodrama -- Ugly Betty
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Allgemeines
Schlagwort(e):
Lateinamerika
;
Soapopera
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