Malverde and Trope Metamorphosis: Saintly Mexican Bandits in American Mass Culture!

Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the "Mexican" in America tries to plumb the depths of Mexican figuration in the Americas--the job is endless! Witness today's New York Times with its feature on the origins and rise of Malverde, the patron saint of narcotraficantes. More on this, scarface, hollywood, and more, to come.

A Xicanosmotic riff on Malverde can be visited by hitting the image below: