"Not since John Fante's “Ask the Dust” have we been smacked in the face so vividly by a work that reveals the psychic (and aesthetic) consequences of growing up hated in California and America. This is the macabre flip side of the quaint mini-malls, beaches and scenic vistas of North County, beach-area communities that revel in their naturalistic excesses while masking their grotesque Hieronymus Bosch-like dimensions, reeling with obsessional anti-Mexican loathing."
The new and improvedTex[t]-Mex Galleryblog™ devotes itself to the aggressive, relentless, and, at times, pathological interrogation of Mexican, Latina/o, Chicana/o, "Hispanic," Mexican-American, and Latin American stereotypes. It is either the online supplement to or the bastard sister of a 2007 University of Texas Press book. The book, marketed for the general public (not just academic cultural studies wonks) and a perfect, if a tad garish stocking stuffer, is also available from Powells, Amazon.com, and LA's swank Skylight Books in Los Feliz.
nota bene: The old school version of this blog remains open and serving customers owing to the clamoring, shrill pleas of nostalgia-junky websurfers.
3 comments:
Blogged about your column and site today, very nice review.
loved this:
"Not since John Fante's “Ask the Dust” have we been smacked in the face so vividly by a work that reveals the psychic (and aesthetic) consequences of growing up hated in California and America. This is the macabre flip side of the quaint mini-malls, beaches and scenic vistas of North County, beach-area communities that revel in their naturalistic excesses while masking their grotesque Hieronymus Bosch-like dimensions, reeling with obsessional anti-Mexican loathing."
gracias gracias!!!!
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