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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press , 2008Description: x, 233 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780292717121
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Bibliografia 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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