Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture

by Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz

Book Overview

Tracing the configuration of the slapstick, destitute Peladita/Peladito and the Pachuca/Pachuco (depicted in flashy zoot suits) from 1928 to 2004, Wild Tongues is an ambitious, extensive examination of social order in Mexican and Chicana/o cultural productions in literature, theater, film, music, and performance art.

From the use of the Peladita and the Peladito as stock characters who criticized various...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292754272
• ISBN13: 9780292754270
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"