Thursday, May 27, 2010

R2-D2 or Arturito: George Lucas-flavored Xicanosmosis


Gracias to super-cool painter, Izel Vargas, off whose facebook site I lifted this frontera-licked meme.

Ecuadorian-American Pop Star: the next Latina bombshell exhibit...

Cristina Aguilera, Tex[t]-Mex exhibit A. check
Latina as synecdoche for sexual potentiality. check, check.


Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Old Textmex Index Back Online--Sort Of...


It's back--many links still broken; but more fixes to come! Hit the image for the link.

Sick Culture: Ewen, Lotringer, Fuentes, Gates AND Rend[er]ing LC Back in Print

Two articles I published back in the day with Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture and The Review of Contemporary Fiction are back online. Here are the references--hit the cover images for the direct links:



William A. Nericcio, "Sick Culture: Reading Across the Disciplines With Carlos Fuentes, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Sylvère Lotringer and Stuart Ewen." Spring 50 (1990): 159-173.



Willam A. Nericcio, "Rend(er)ing 'L.C.': Susan Daitch Meets Borges & Borges, Delacroix, Marx, Derrida, Daumier, and Other Textualized Bodies" The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 13, (1993).

Summer Reading 2010

...a quick listing of recommended texts for Summer fun 2010...

The Continuing Ballad of the Sleeping Mexican



Another Monday--more sleeping Mexicans; hit the image to the left for the story, the right for the ad.