Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular CultureTracing the configuration of the slapstick, destitute Peladita Peladito and the Pachuca Pachuco (depicted in flashy zoot suits) from 1928 to 2004, Wild Tongues is an ambitious, extensive examination of social order in Mexican and Chicana o cultural productions in literature, theater, film, music, and performance art. From the use of the Peladita and the Peladito as stock characters who criticized various aspects of the Mexican government in the 1920s