...chapter six Majnun’s Mask Sex, Suicide, and Semiotic Malfunctioning diary entry, vali asr street, tehran, 1993 A small crowd has gathered on the corner near Vanak Square to watch a woman on the other side of the street wave her russari to flag down a cab. Her gray hair is neatly woven...

... CARLOS MONSIVÁIS The Hour of the Mask as Protagonist: El Santo versus the Skeptics on the Subject of Myth odolfo Guzmán Huerta, El Santo, is born on 23 September 1915 in Tu- lancingo, Hidalgo, and dies in 1984 in Mexico City. In 1920, his family Rmoves to the capital, to...

... HEATHER LEVI The Mask of the Luchador: Wrestling, Politics, and Identity in Mexico Old or young, creole or mestizo, general or laborer or lawyer, the Mexican seems to me to be a person who shuts himself away to protect himself. His face is a mask and so is his smile.—Octavio...

... siX  Out from Behind the Mask Paul laurEncE dunBar, thE haMPton institutE caMEra cluB, and PhotograPhic PErforMancE of idEntity Ray Sapirstein Almost annually from 1899 to 1906, the celebrated...

... Old or young, creole or mestizo, general or laborer or lawyer, the Mexican seems to me to be a person who shuts himself away to pro- tect himself. His face is a mask and so is his smile. octavio paz, the labyrinth of solitude 4 THE WRESTLING MASK...

...6 MEDIATING THE MASK Lucha Libre and Circulation s I have shown in these chapters, as a signifying prac- Atice, lucha libre performance cannot be separated from its social context. Yet an important part of that...

...CHAPTER 2 Migrations of a Mask Black skin, black mask: the space behind the mask was occupied by another mask; and this in a time when the politics of flesh seemed not arbitrary but immutable. And since the color of this flesh rendered its cultural distinctive- ness invisible within the...

... S amy lawrence T Marlene Dietrich The Voice as Mask dietrich’s voice is as instantly recognizable and as widely parodied as is her image. Just as her face can be easily caricatured, conveyed with a minimum of lines...

... Wearing and Tearing the Mask blacks on and in blackface, live downtown vaudeville What was not pleasant was the hush that coughed When the Negro clown...

... Ral Ellison Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity hen this essay was published in 1953, it was prefaced with the fol• W lowing note: "When I started rewriting this essay it occurred to me...

... PART I. MASKS In this island of time in which we live, it has to be possible to listen to the voices that come from the past. No one lacks responsibility and we know that responsibility is not exercised only upon future actions. We are as much responsible for the past as we are for the...