Acknowledgements
Prologue to the English Edition
Prologue to the Second Spanish Edition
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
I. AGAINST NATIONALISM
Chapter 1: Manuel Puig and Conceptual Art
• Tucumán Arde (Tucumán Burns): The Forgotten Predecessors of Manuel Puig
• Heartbreak Tango: The Personification of Tango
• Betrayed by Rita Hayworth: The Rise of Melodrama
Chapter 2: Brazilian Tropicalism
• The Language of Spectacle: Tropicalism in the Visual Arts
• U.S. Mythology: Tropicalism in Literature
• Culture as Copy: Musical Tropicalism
• National or Cosmopolitan? Academic Reception of Tropicalism
• The Aesthetic of Violence: Tropicalist Cinema
II. KITSCH, MASS CULTURE AND CRITICAL DISCOURSE
Chapter 3
• Kitsch and Mass Culture in Postmodernism
• Kitsch as Demarcation of Social Barriers and Class
• Kitsch and Conceptions of Taste
• Emotion x Commotion: The Frankfurt School
• Art x Kitsch
• Mass Culture: A French Analysis
• Mass Culture: The U.S. Case
• Pop Art and the Concept of Camp
• Kitsch, Cursi, and Camp as Aesthetic Devices
III. KITSCH IN THE NEOBAROQUE ERA
Chapter 4: Luis Rafael Sánchez: Dandyism in the Twentieth Century
• Macho Camacho’s Beat: The Cursi as Social Barrier
• La importancia de llamarse Daniel Santos: Cursilería x Testimonio
Chapter 5 Severo Sarduy: A Post-Everything Author
• The Abstract Roots of Severo Sarduy
• Cobra: From the Illegible Text of High Modernism to the Text of Bliss
• Toward a Neobaroque Aesthetic
• Colibrí: The Lower Dwellings of Camp
IV. THE CANONIZATION OF KITSCH
Chapter 6
• Haroldo de Campos: The Incorporation of Orality
• Clarice Lispector: The Working Class Does Not Go to Heaven
• César Aira: The Guerrilla as Pulp Fiction
Conclusions
Works Cited
Recordings Cited
Films Cited
Visual Arts Cited
Appendix
Index