Drugs, thugs, and divas : telenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America / by O. Hugo Benavides.
Soap opera speaks a universal language, presenting characters and plots that resonate far beyond the culture that creates them. Latin American soap operas--telenovelas--have found enthusiastic audiences throughout the Americas and Europe, as well as in Egypt, Russia, and China, while Mexican narco-d...
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University of Texas Press,
2008.
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Table of 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.