The Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular by Ilan Stavans
By Ilan Stavans
Always funny and perceptive, Stavans offers an improved assortment that has the ability to head even extra past universal assumptions and is helping us comprehend Hispanic pop culture and its opposite numbers within the United States.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino tradition at Amherst College.
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