The US Hispanic Flapper: Pelonas and Flapperismo in US Spanish-Language Newspapers 1920-1929

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dc.contributor.authorFeu Lopez, Maria Montserrat
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-07T14:03:21Z
dc.date.available2019-02-07T14:03:21Z
dc.date.issued2015-07
dc.description.abstractMexican exile journalist Julio Arce’s chronicles “Todo se arregla con money” (1924), “Cosas del Exhibition Day” (1924), and “La estenógrafa” (1925) are analyzed for their farcical portrayal of the 1920s Modern Girl, who symbolized immoral and consumerist modernity for Arce’s readers. The article considers the context of previously unstudied journalistic genres from the era’s leading U.S. Spanish-language newspapers, which display a range of comic forms that negatively represent the flapper’s appearance and lifestyle. Beyond derisive entertainment, humor is aimed at influencing readers’ opinions about U.S. Hispanic women’s gender and ethnic restrictions. The pelona was a popular topic in Spanish-language newspapers, and references to other entertainment industries from that era show that critical responses to flapperismo traveled across media, not only in the United States but also throughout the Americas.en_US
dc.description.departmentWorld Languages & Cultures
dc.identifier.citationMaria Montserrat Feu López, “The U.S. Hispanic Flapper: Pelonas and Flapperismo in U.S. Spanish-Language Newspapers, 1920–1929,” Studies in American Humor, vol. 1, no. 2, July 2015, pp. 192–217. https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.1.2.0192en_US
dc.identifier.otherDOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.1.2.0192
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11875/2567
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Humor Studies Associationen_US
dc.subjectHispanicsen_US
dc.subjectwomenen_US
dc.subjectcartoonsen_US
dc.subjectsatireen_US
dc.subjectjournalismen_US
dc.subjectnewspapersen_US
dc.subjectfemininityen_US
dc.subjectNew Womanen_US
dc.subjectflapperen_US
dc.subjectpelonaen_US
dc.subjectRoaring Twentiesen_US
dc.subjectethnic humoren_US
dc.subjectgender humoren_US
dc.subjectU.S. Hispanic newspapersen_US
dc.subjectJulio Arceen_US
dc.titleThe US Hispanic Flapper: Pelonas and Flapperismo in US Spanish-Language Newspapers 1920-1929en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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