Mexican Humor 201

Author : Cabo Bob
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494757328
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican Humor 201 written by Cabo Bob and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jokes and humor from Mexico! Invaluable for the Spanish student, expatriate looking to blend in, businessmen... and anybody who likes a good laugh. All humor in both Spanish and English, with pronunciation guide and study tips as you chucle your way through. There's no better way to be part of a country than to be laughing at its humor--and here's a collection of classics.

Author : Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842027717
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity written by Jeffrey M. Pilcher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why was Cantinflas, actor Mario Moreno's film persona, the most popular movie star in Mexican history? Was it because every Mexican - rich or poor, Creole or Indian, man or woman, young or old - could identify with him?

Author : Peter Wogan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319522647
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis written by Peter Wogan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the incredible true story of Ranulfo Juárez, a Mexican immigrant. After working for years in the fields of Oregon and becoming a U.S. citizen, Ranulfo started making plans to buy a small bakery in 2005. But not knowing if the economy would hold steady, Ranulfo examined his dreams every morning in search of secret clues foretelling insight and a successful bakery—or homelessness. Ranulfo also enlisted author Peter Wogan, a white anthropology professor with a penchant for self-doubt, as his confidante and sidekick in this quest. Readers won’t know until the end whether Ranulfo became another innocent victim of the Financial Crisis of 2008, but, throughout, they will see Ranulfo and Peter confront naysayers and cheats, as well as their own differences and fears. Like Don Quixote, this book is comical, subversive, and inspirational.

Author : José E. Limón
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029273879X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Américo Paredes written by José E. Limón and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several biographies of Américo Paredes have been published over the last decade, yet they generally overlook the paradoxical nature of his life’s work. Embarking on an in-depth, critical exploration of the significant body of work produced by Paredes, José E. Limón (one of Paredes’s students and now himself one of the world’s leading scholars in Mexican American studies) puts the spotlight on Paredes as a scholar/citizen who bridged multiple arenas of Mexican American cultural life during a time of intense social change and cultural renaissance. Serving as a counterpoint to hagiographic commentaries, Américo Paredes challenges and corrects prevailing readings by contemporary critics of Paredes’s Asian period and of such works as the novel George Washington Gómez, illuminating new facets in Paredes’s role as a folklorist and public intellectual. Limón also explores how the field of cultural studies has drifted away from folklore, or “the poetics of everyday life,” while he examines the traits of Mexican American expressive culture. He also investigates the scholarly paradigm of ethnography itself, a stimulating inquiry that enhances readings of Paredes’s best-known study, “With His Pistol in His Hand,” and other works. Underscoring Paredes’s place in folklore and Mexican American literary production, the book questions the shifting reception of Paredes throughout his academic career, ultimately providing a deep hermeneutics of widely varied work. Offering new conceptions, interpretations, and perspectives, Américo Paredes gives this pivotal literary figure and his legacy the critical analysis they deserve.

Author : Juan Poblete
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137543574
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humor in Latin American Cinema written by Juan Poblete and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses a variety of regional humor traditions such as exploitation cinema, Brazilian chanchada, the Cantinflas heritage, the comedy of manners and light sexuality, iconic figures and characters, as well as a variety of humor registers evident in different Latin American films.

Author : Olof Kjell Oscar Ohlson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666909386
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico's Rebellious Afterlives written by Olof Kjell Oscar Ohlson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico's Rebellious Afterlives: Armed Uprisings and Activism in the Narco War examines nonviolent activism and armed uprisings in the narco war. Olof Kjell Oscar Ohlson argues that relatives of Mexico’s many victims of violence, often without earlier experiences of human rights advocacy, become activists protesting violence or form self-armed citizens’ police to resist state, capitalist, and criminal violence. Ohlson develops innovative theories on political afterlives and rituals of rebellion, demonstrating how political street protests transform over time to become annual commemorative events at new memorial sites for the disappeared.

Author : Linda Egan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816543976
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carlos Monsiváis written by Linda Egan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Mexico’s foremost social and political chroniclers and its most celebrated cultural critic, Carlos Monsiváis has read the pulse of his country over the past half century. The author of five collections of literary journalism pieces called crónicas, he is perhaps best known for his analytic and often satirical descriptions of Mexico City’s popular culture. This comprehensive study of Monsiváis’s crónicas is the first book to offer an analysis of these works and to place Monsiváis’s work within a theoretical framework that recognizes the importance of his vision of Mexican culture. Linda Egan examines his ideology in relation to theoretical postures in Latin America, the United States, and Europe to cast Monsiváis as both a heterodox pioneer and a mainstream spokesman. She then explores the poetics of the contemporary chronicle in Mexico, reviewing the genre’s history and its relation to other narrative forms. Finally, she focuses on the canonical status of Monsiváis’s work, devoting a chapter to each of his five principal collections. Egan argues that the five books that are the focus of her study tell a story of ever-renewing suspense: we cannot know “the end” until Monsiváis is through constructing his literary project. Despite this, she observes, his work between 1970 and 1995 documents important discoveries in his search for causes, effects, and deconstructions of historical obstacles to Mexico’s passage into modernity. While anthropologists and historians continue to introduce new paradigms for the study of Mexico’s cultural space, Egan’s book provides a reflexive twist by examining the work of one of the thinkers who first inspired such a critical movement. More than an appraisal of Monsiváis, it offers a valuable discussion of theoretical issues surrounding the study of the chronicle as it is currently practiced in Mexico. It balances theory and criticism to lend new insight into the ties between Mexican society, social conscience, and literature.

Author : William Daugherty
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475983220
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humor for Mature Minds, Volume 1 written by William Daugherty and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Daugherty has been collecting and telling jokes and humorous stories for many years. He does this, not for profit, but for the sheer enjoyment he receives from making people laugh. With stories such as these, he has entertained his Rotary Club, local and National Audubon Societies, literary group meetings, humorous roast, and members of his weekly bridge games. Bills occupation has not been entertainment. Rather, he has post graduate degrees in Physics and Education, and before retiring, was an Aerospace Engineering Manager at Hughes Aircraft Company, Space Technology Laboratories, and TRW Systems. He has written two WWII novels about the air war in the South Pacific, Black Cats, and Nightmares. He published a monolog on education, Public School Education Destroyed by Educators, and an engineering text he co authored, Mechanical Engineering for Electrical Engineers. His OP-ED pieces have appeared in major newspapers. Bill firmly believes that laughter is sorely missing in our world, and jokes about mature subjects are especially entertaining. To find out of this Not our typical joke book youll have to read it.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Latin American Lore written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pauline Koner
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822308782
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solitary Song written by Pauline Koner and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this well-illustrated work, Pauline Koner "traces the course" of her remarkable career from her days as a student of Michel Fokine in the 1920s, through further studies with Angel Cansino and the brilliantly influential Michio Ito, to a period as a dance soloist before World War II that make her reputation. After the war she entered a productive collaboration with Doris Humphrey, and then began the epochal performances with Jose Limon. She continued to perform until 1972, and her influence as a teacher and choreographer is still widely felt. Her book is an instructive and charming chronicle of this remarkable career, as well as a record of performances and interpretations that have gone far to mold modern dance into its present state of grace.