Drugs, thugs, and divas : telenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America / by Oswald Hugo Benavides.
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TextPublication 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)
- 791.45/6
- PN 1992.8 B456d 2008
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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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