Description
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive analysis of South American telenovelas and Mexican narco-dramas and their role in shaping popular culture throughout the Americas and beyond.
Trade Review"Drugs, Thugs, and Divas offers a truly original contribution to studies of Latin American popular culture. The book treats two genres whose popularity is growing exponentially within and outside of Latin America, and its extended, nuanced investigation of narco-dramas, in particular, makes it a truly cutting-edge study." Ruby Tapia, Assistant Professor of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Melodrama as Ambiguous Signifier: Latin American Telenovelas and Narco-Dramas
- Part I
- 2. Seeing Xica and the Melodramatic Unveiling of Colonial Desire
- 3. Producing the Global West through Latin Tales of Seduction and Envy
- 4. Karen's Seduction: The Racial Politics of Appropriate Dinner Guests
- 5. A Mother's Wrath and the Complex Disjuncturing of Class
- Part II
- 6. Being Narco: The Evolution of a Continental Sensibility
- 7. Saintly Figures and Icons: The Migration of a Continental Dream
- 8. La Reina del Sur: Gender, Racial, and National Contestations of Regional Identity
- 9. Sex, Drugs, and Cumbia: The Hybrid Nature of Culture
- 10. Conclusion: The Postcolonial Politics of Melodrama
- Postscript: Ugly Betty
- References
- Index
