Tex[t]-Mex : seductive hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America / William Anthony Nericcio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nericcio, William Anthony, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans in motion pictures.

Mexican Americans in popular culture.

Physical Description:

248 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.

Summary:

Nericcio engages in close readings of rogue/icons Rita Hayworth, Speedy Gonzalez, Lupe Vé lez, 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.

Contents:

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

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 Lopez, and other Chicano/Latino marionettes prancing about our first world visual emporium ; Parable cameos by Jacques Derrida and, a dirty joke

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

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"

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-238) and index.

ISBN:

0292714564

0292714572

OCLC:

68712040

Publisher Number:

9780292714564

9780292714571

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