Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America
Language: English
Published by University of Texas Press, 2007
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
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248 pages. Color illustration section. A clean, bright and sound copy. Light bump to the bottom of the spine. Inscribed the author NERICCIO on the titlepage "¡For ___, one of the remarkable souls I've run into in Califas!" and has crossed out his printed name, written in his large initial and the date 2015.
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- Title
- Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America
- Author
- Nericcio, William Anthony
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0292714572
- ISBN 13
- 9780292714571
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
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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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About the Author
William Anthony Nericcio is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University in California, where he also serves on the faculty of the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.
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