Latin American Icons Fame Across Borders

Name: Latin American Icons Fame Across Borders
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ISBN: 9780826519306

ISBN-10: 082651930X

ISBN-13: 9780826519306

Edition: 2013

Authors: Dianna C. Niebylski, Patrick O'Connor

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The faces of Che, Frida, Evita, Carmen Miranda, and other icons represent Latin America both to a global public that sees these faces constantly reproduced, and to Latin Americans themselves. They enter the circulation machines of Hollywood, or work as nostalgic definitions of a nation, or define a post-national condition. They become stereotypes as they go global, and the often melodramatic stories that cling to them give them a different sort of power than the one they had in their original contexts.Latin American Icons, from critics both in the United States and in Latin America, ask these faces questions; they describe the technologies and propaganda machines, whether the newspapers of…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date: 2/21/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Dianna Niebylski is Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Humoring Resistance.