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Author Nericcio, William Anthony, 1961-

Title Tex(t)-Mex : seductive hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America / William Anthony Nericcio.

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.896872 N356t 2007    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 248 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), facsim., ports. ; 26 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-238) and index.
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"
Subject Mexican Americans in motion pictures.
Mexican Americans in popular culture.
Added Title Text-Mex
ISBN 9780292714571 (pbk.)
0292714572 (pbk.)
9780292714564 (cloth)
0292714564 (cloth)

 
    
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