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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... question of what it means to speak Mexican ; or , perhaps better put , it attempts to engage the question , answering it somewhat but also indicting its problematic in the process . This makes Welles's late - fifties masterpiece an ...
... question is particularly critical , as these are evaluations of a cin- ematext that is set outside the " real Mexico " at the margins . If " Mexican " means anything in this con- text , where does that mean- ing come from ? Let me ...
... question of Rita's hairline was really a question of ethnicity . Having danced in Mexico and thus been Mexican identified , Rita Hayworth was too " Mexican " for her investor / handler Harry Cohn - how could he pour money into her when ...
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Nonhallucinatory Prefatory Palabras | 9 |
TextMex | 10 |
Seductive Hallucination Gallery One An Interstice | 31 |
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