About Telenovelas
Here, you can learn more about telenovelas and their history and think critically about how they represent race, class, gender, and sexuality issues.
Telenovelas, book edited by Ilan Stavans
Drama Excess Men in bee suits Often erroneously compared to soap operas of the United States, outside of the necessary and sometimes fantastical dramatic story arc, however, the telenovela differs greatly from U.S. soap operas and have regional and cultural distinctions throughout Latin America. In Telenovelas, Ilan Stavans has gathered over two-dozen essays covering the telenovela for readers to better understand the phenomenon and its myriad layers.Branching off from radionovelas, the telenovela was exported from pre-Castro Cuba during the 1950s. The essays found in Telenovelas covers a broad view of the genre, television’s impact in Latino culture, as well as more in-depth discussions of specific telenovelas throughout the Spanish-speaking television audience in the North America. Also explored is how telenovelas depict stereotypes, respond to gender and class roles, and examines the differences in topic and thematic choices as well as production values unique to each country.
“That female is bad”_ “Arribismo” in the telenovela “Teresa” and the stigmatization of social aspirations in Latin America
In this essay, I try to analyze the class, gender, and sexuality issues involved in the “arribismo” phenomenon depicted in the telenovela.
Cuidadanos de ficción: discursos y derechos cuidadanos en las telenovelas mexicanas. El caso Alma de Hierro
Las telenovelas mexicanas han comenzado a “naturalizar” diversos derechos ciudadanos para construir un discurso social que, anclado al debate, busca promover la inhibición tanto del derecho como del ciudadano que lo ejerce. Este artículo aborda el análisis de la telenovela Alma de Hierro y la forma en cómo ésta representó la Ley de Interrupción Legal del Embarazo y la Ley de Sociedad de Convivencia.
