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Drugs, thugs, and divas : telenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America / by Oswald Hugo Benavides.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Austin, E.U.A. : University of Texas Press, 2008.Description: x, 233 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780292714502 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0292714505 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780292717121 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0292717121 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.45/6
LOC classification:
  • PN 1992.8 B456d 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1992.8 B456d 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000077712

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index.

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.

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