Living Telenovelas/Telenovelizing Life: Mexican American Girls' Identities and Transnational Telenovelas.

Examines the local reception of global Spanish-language soap operas, or telenovelas. Explores how young people talked about Mexican telenovelas in daily life. Concludes that the telenovela, within certain limits, reflected some of the national, ethnic, gender, and class tensions that defined the viewers' identities as working-class, Mexican American girls. (SG)