- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 233 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Drugs, thugs, and divas (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Drugs, thugs, and divas (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2007015807
- OCLC
- ssj0000141690
- Author
Benavides, O. Hugo (Oswald Hugo), 1968-
- Title
Drugs, thugs, and divas [electronic resource] : telenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America / by O. Hugo Benavides.
- Imprint
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
- Edition
1st ed.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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