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Drugs, thugs, and divas [electronic resource] : telenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America / by O. Hugo Benavides

Author
Benavides, O. Hugo (Oswald Hugo), 1968-
Published
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
x, 233 p. ; 24 cm.
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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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ISBN
9780292714502 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292717121 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index.
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