Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in AmericaUniversity of Texas Press, 2007 - 248 pagina's A rogues' gallery of Mexican bandits, bombshells, lotharios, and thieves saturates American popular culture. Remember Speedy Gonzalez? "Mexican Spitfire" Lupe Vélez? The Frito Bandito? Familiar and reassuring—at least to Anglos—these Mexican stereotypes are not a people but a text, a carefully woven, articulated, and consumer-ready commodity. In this original, provocative, and highly entertaining book, William Anthony Nericcio deconstructs Tex[t]-Mexicans in films, television, advertising, comic books, toys, literature, and even critical theory, revealing them to be less flesh-and-blood than "seductive hallucinations," less reality than consumer products, a kind of "digital crack." Nericcio engages in close readings of rogue/icons Rita Hayworth, Speedy Gonzalez, Lupe Vélez, and Frida Kahlo, as well as Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil and the comic artistry of Gilbert Hernandez. He playfully yet devastatingly discloses how American cultural creators have invented and used these and other Tex[t]-Mexicans since the Mexican Revolution of 1910, thereby exposing the stereotypes, agendas, phobias, and intellectual deceits that drive American popular culture. This sophisticated, innovative history of celebrity Latina/o mannequins in the American marketplace takes a quantum leap toward a constructive and deconstructive next-generation figuration/adoration of Latinos in America. |
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... China Found in the trash can behind a toy store in La Jolla , California , in 2004 , this piece is now featured in a group of Joseph Cornell - inspired found - object sculptures entitled " Startling Gringo Artifacts . " I am still ...
... Chinese grocers and fry cooks and den- tists , disregard [ ing ] the Judeo - Christian foundation of American ( sic ) nar- rative . ( 171 ) On African Americans and the civil rights movement : As America became integrated , the black ...
... Chinese ( opium smokers or railroad coolies ) , Irish ( drunks or ward bosses ) , Scan- dinavians ( oafs or Vikings ) , Italians ( slum dwellers or Mafiosi ) , Jews ( rag - picking parasites or interna- tional bankers ) and now Mexicans ...
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Nonhallucinatory Prefatory Palabras | 9 |
TextMex | 10 |
Seductive Hallucination Gallery One An Interstice | 31 |
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