Zorro's Shadow: How a Mexican Legend Became America's First Superhero
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1641602937
ISBN 13
9781641602938
Category
Popular Culture
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Publication Year
2020
Publisher
Pages
304
Subject
Zorro -- (Fictitious character); McCulley, Johnston, -- 1883-1958 -- Characters -- Zorro; Lombardo, Guillén, -- 1615-1659 -- Influence; Murieta, Joaquín, -- -1853 -- Influence; Superheroes
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Abstract
Historian and Latin American studies expert Stephen J. C. Andes investigates the legends behind the mask of Zorro, describing how the stories of William Lamport and Joaquín Murrieta influenced the development of the masked hero in black, and revealing Zorro as the Latinx inspiration for today's iconic superheroes
Description
Contents:
Preface: Who is America's first superhero? --
Part I: Ghosts --
The statue --
The pyre --
The legend of Don Guillen de Lampart --
Welcome to the Hotel Zorro! --
Back to the desert --
Mexican argonaut --
I am Joaquín --
The return of the head of Joaquín Murrieta --
Part II: Masks --
Writer behind the mask --
The blood of Lolita Pulido --
Becoming Zorro --
The mark of Douglas Fairbanks --
Zorro in la la land --
The lone ranger: or, how Zorro gets whitewashed --
Fox does the fox --
Disneylandia --
Guy Williams becomes Zorro --
Zorro, alias Batman --
Zorro reborn --
Epilogue: Zorro in an alternate nerdverse
Preface: Who is America's first superhero? --
Part I: Ghosts --
The statue --
The pyre --
The legend of Don Guillen de Lampart --
Welcome to the Hotel Zorro! --
Back to the desert --
Mexican argonaut --
I am Joaquín --
The return of the head of Joaquín Murrieta --
Part II: Masks --
Writer behind the mask --
The blood of Lolita Pulido --
Becoming Zorro --
The mark of Douglas Fairbanks --
Zorro in la la land --
The lone ranger: or, how Zorro gets whitewashed --
Fox does the fox --
Disneylandia --
Guy Williams becomes Zorro --
Zorro, alias Batman --
Zorro reborn --
Epilogue: Zorro in an alternate nerdverse
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