Elián González Goes Pop! The Cultural Afterlives of a Cuban Child Icon

Paul Allatson, PhD, is a cultural studies scholar and industry fellow at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, who has published widely in the areas of Latinx and transamerican cultural studies, postcolonial theory, sexuality studies, media studies, and literary and performance studies. Among many publications, he is the author of Latino Dreams: Transcultural Traffic and the U.S. National Imaginary (2002), and Key Terms in Latino/a Cultural and Literary Studies (2007), and is co-editor (with Jo McCormack) of Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities (2008) and (with Elaine Jeffreys) Celebrity Philanthropy (2015). Paul is the founding editor of the multilingual PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Elián, Virtual Fame and Cultural Afterlife.- Chapter 3: eBay Elián: Your Painting Sucks (Selling Elián).-Chapter 4: Oh My God, They’ve Killed Elián! (Simulating Elián).-Chapter 5: Elián Brainwashing Water from the Cuban Alps (Interpellating Elián).-Chapter 6: The Im/possible Figure of Carmelián (Queering Elián).-Chapter 7: The Boy Who Visited Disney World (Scripting Elián).-Coda: Elián contains multitudes.