Telenovelas: nostalgia, stereotypes, and evolution

Hyphenated with Joanna Hausmann and Jenny Lorenzo

Pitaya Entertainment

Latinx, Hyphenated, Pitaya, Jenny Lorenzo, Education, Us Latinos, Comedy, Joanna Hausmann, Society & Culture

4.9 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Joanna and Jenny reminisce about the telenovelas of their childhood, they discuss why they think telenovelas are popular around the world, and they point out the problematic ways in which telenovelas have typically portrayed race, class, and women.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Joanna House, Manhattan, Golfar, Balonso, Kermdotti Grobla.
0:09.0	And I'm Jennifer Lorenzo-Gallegos Diaz Cotto.
0:13.7	And this is hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen.
0:17.6	And today we wanted to talk about something that you guys have been requesting us to talk about,
0:22.7	and that is telenovelas.
0:27.0	Drama!
0:28.9	Aye!
0:30.0	So today we're going to be talking about telenovelas and nostalgia.
0:33.7	We're going to be talking about their success around the world and obviously the problematic aspects of it.
0:37.9	But before we do, Jenny and I, we wrote a scene based off existing telenovela scenes that we're going to perform and translate for you in real time to get you in the mood in case you don't know much about this art form.
0:52.4	In order to get in the mood, you have to like like, stand in front of a mirror and just maniacally
0:56.7	apply red lipstick over your mouth as you say these things.
1:02.6	Jenny, I don't have red lipstick.
1:04.7	I, well.
1:07.6	I think, I think just, like, my inner anxiety will have to do.
1:11.8	Okay.
1:12.3	Yeah, that's fine.
1:13.8	Okay.
1:14.4	All right.
1:14.7	All right.
1:15.1	I'm going to.
1:15.8	So what we'll do is I'll do one sentence and then you translate it in the same.
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