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Telenovelas in Pan-Latino Context (Latin American Tópicos)
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About Telenovelas In Pan-Latino Context
Product Description This concise book provides an accessible overview of the history of the telenovela in Latin America within a pan-Latino context, including the way the genre crosses borders between Latin America and the United States. Telenovelas, a distinct variety of soap operas originating in Latin America, take up key issues of race, class, sexual identity and violence, interweaving stories with melodramatic romance and quests for identity. June Carolyn Erlick examines the social implications of telenovela themes in the context of the evolution of television as an integral part of the modernization of Latin American countries. Review routledge.com/posts/13173?utm_source=Routledge&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=180213143 From the Back Cover "A delightful, thoroughly researched and enlightening account of what is perhaps Latin America's most important cultural phenomenon, the telenovela."--Alma Guillermoprieto is a writer for The New York Review of Books and author of The Heart That Bleeds "It is a sign of laziness to pigeonhole telenovelas as a repository of stereotypes. A complex, multifaceted universe is depicted in them through the prism of melodrama, which the masses, especially in Hispanic civilization, wholeheartedly adore. Frankly, literary classics such as Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude are melodramatic too. A less condescending, more sensible approach is to look at melodrama as a tool for understanding social mores, which is what June Erlick does in this practical book. I'm grateful to her for taking a contrarian approach."--Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in the Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, author of Love and Language and I Love My Selfie, and editor of The Norton Anthology of Latin American countries" About the Author June Carolyn Erlick is Publications Director at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and Editor-in-Chief of ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America.
