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Tropical kitsch : mass media in Latin American art and literature / Lidia Santos ; translated by Elisabeth Enenbach.

Author/creator Santos, Lidia
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoPrinceton : Markus Wiener Publishers ; Madrid : Iberoamericana, ©2006.
Descriptionxxii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Subject(s)
Latin American literature--20th century --History and criticism.
Arts, Latin American--20th century.
Mass media and the arts--Latin America.
Kitsch--Latin America.
Popular culture--Latin America.
Uniform titleKitsch tropical. English
Contents Manuel Puig and conceptual art -- Brazilian tropicalism -- Kitsch and mass culture in postmodernism ; Kitsch as demarcation of social barriers and class ; Kitsch and conceptions of taste ; Emotion x commotion : the Frankfurt School ; Art x kitsch ; Mass culture : a French analysis ; Mass culture : the U.S. case ; Pop art and the concept of camp ; Kitsch, cursi, and camp as aesthetic devices -- Luis Rafael Sanchez : dandyism in the Twentieth Century -- Severo Sarduy : a post-everything author -- Haroldo de Campos : the incorporation of orality.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 209-229) and index.
LCCN 2005017246
ISBN1558763546
ISBN9781558763548
ISBN1558763538 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9781558763531 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN8484892573 (Iberoamericana/Editorial Vervuert)
ISBN9788484892571 (Iberoamericana/Editorial Vervuert)
ISBN9781558763531(hardcover : alk. paper)

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