Tex[t]-Mex : seductive hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America

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Nonhallucinatory prefatory Palabras ..

Backstory: a decidedly odd tale of what happened when Hollywood killed Vaudeville, postcards boomed, and the United States invaded Mexico

Seductive hallucination Gallery One: an interstice: Being the first of several summary interruptions of the drearily semantic in favor of the deliciously semiotic, a Frontera of sorts

Hallucinations of Miscegenation and murder: dancing along the Mestiza/o borders of proto-Chicana/o cinema with Orson Welles's Touch of Evil

When electrolysis proxies for the existential: a somewhat sordid meditation on what might occur if Frantz Fanon, Rosario Castellanos, Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Spivak, and Sandra Cisneros asked Rita Hayworth her name at the Tex[t]-Mex beauty parlor

Autopsy of a rat: sundry parables of Warner Brothers Studios, Jewish American Animators, Speedy Gonzales, Freddy López, and other Chicano/Latino marionettes prancing about our first world visual emporium; Parable cameos by Jacques Derrida; and, a dirty joke

Lupe Vélez regurgitated; or, Jesus's Kleenex: cautionary, Indigestion-inspiring ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" toilets

Seductive hallucination Gallery Two: interstice the second: Being a second archive of visual pathogens

XicanOsmosis: Frida Kahlo and Mexico in the eyes of Gilbert Hernandez

Conclusion: (with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche) "Have I been understood? XicanOsmosis versus the Tex[t]-Mex."