Controlling Resistance, Resisting Control: The género chico and the Dynamics of Mass Entertainment in Late Nineteenth-Century Spain

twentieth-century fiction, musical theater, and cul tural studies in Spain and Latin America. Recent pu blications include articles in MLN, Latin American Literary Review, /??//Jour nal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, as well as a chapter on the Cuban novel andzarzuela, Cecilia Valdes, in Timothy J. Reisss edited collection: Music, Writing, and Cultural Uni ty in the Caribbean. The one-act comedy {genero chico), engendered by the por horas format and bolstered by the re-emergence of the sainete, dominated Madrids theatrical box office