Spring 2013 SDSU Literature Class: I/Eye Pledge Allegiance!

Return to I/Eye Pledge Allegiance, English 525 here...or hit the image below:

Back on the KPFK Airwaves! Gustavo Arellano and William Nericcio on the Librotraficantes for Arizona and More...

It was great being on the radio again today, KPFK to be exact, with the infamous, amazing author of Ask a Mexican and, now, Taco USA--the one and only Gustavo Arellano. Our sequence begins about 20 minutes in, but listen to the whole thing (streaming) if you have an hour or so to burn (while you are updating your Facebook page ;-0). The ipodcast is here.

NOTE: the photo above is from our original Xicanoholic performance at Casa Familiar's theFRONT in San Ysidro--video evidence here.

UTSA Gig | Mexiphobia and Mexiphilia! | September 22, 2011 @ 5:30pm | UTSA MAIN BUILDING 1.101

Click to enlarge! Just like most of the
photos on the Textmex Galleryblog!

Back in print.... “iNobel Paz?: A Pre- and Post-Nobel Survey of a Mexican Writer’s Evolving Views of Mexico, the United States and Other Na[rra]tions” Siglo X/ 20th Century,Vol. 10,Nos. 1-2(1992), 165-94 | W. Nericcio

The second essay I ever published, for the defunct international journal Siglo XX, is back in print through the magic of pdf-files.  Hit the image for the link.

My New Spring 2011 Course @ SDSU is Taking Shape! Robotic, Erotic, Electric

Here are the required books for the class....

Ridiculous Moments in the Personal History of an English Professor | Chapter 19...

Click to see the entire issue.

Gustavo Arellano and William Nericcio Invade Latte Mi Corazon Cafe on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 @ 7pm! Mark Your Calendars!

update: 4 photos from the reading!


Latte mi Corazon has posted an official facebook event listing; RSVP si vous plais!



Gustavo Arellano and William Nericcio invade San Diego's original raza coffeehouse, the Latte Mi Corazon Cafe on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 @ 7pm! Mark Your Calendars! More info and updated poster to follow! Copies of Ask a Mexican and Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America and more will be available for sale and signing.

map | a more detail-rich map listing

UPDATE: Breaking news! Arellano is the commencement speaker at UCLA this year! órale!

POSTER: (designed by Michael Buchmiller, genius)

Engl 549 Imagination Challenge Numero Dos

Engl 549 Imagination Challenge Numero Dos

What are the scary, unreasonable requirements for your dystopia-laced assignment?

Your essays will run anywhere from 3 to 8 pages (tops); it will be cleverly titled, double-spaced, have 1-inch margins top and sides and be carefully proofread; additionally, it will be chock-full of active verbs and, in general, have syntactic variety so as to avoid the dangers of the IS VIRUS; use MLA or University of Chicago-style works cited pages. Your works of genius are due Monday, April 26, 2010 at noon, outside my door at the end of the hallway, 273 Arts and Letters. Late papers will not be accepted. Early papers, in most cases, will be cherished lovingly. All A-level critical speculations will integrate carefully selected direct quotations from the primary texts and will avoid ALL of the quicksand-like bad habits noted here on the gradesheet to your right--click it to make it readable. gradesheet. They will, additionally, include researched material from THREE separate research resources found in LOVE LIBRARY stacks--YES, the "stacks, " "stacks (storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored)." While you are welcome and even encouraged to make use of material from JSTOR or PROJECTMUSE located in the ONLINE VERSION of LOVE LIBRARY, I also expect you to spend sometime spelunking the stacks in search of published scholary materials that either support your argument or, even more exciting, that your utterly disagree with. One last bit of advice, do NOT plagiarize ANY material from the internet; unCITED material = PLAGIARISM; also, if you are going to "quote" a passage from an illustrated text, go to the bother of xeroxing the image and incorporating it INTO your essay.

Where are these prompts that you promised us in class?

Here they are!

Dystopic Prompt Number One:

What is the relationship between humans and machines, what I have called at another time and in another place, the ersatz human? Create a dynamic response to this prompt using TWO or THREE of the following works: DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP; CRASH; WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME; CHILDREN OF MEN.

Dystopic Prompt Number Two:

Alfonso Cuarón and J.G. Ballard author unique visions of our present and our future; contrast the peculiar and particular predilections of these distinctive 20th/21st century storytellers. Don't be afraid to pursue biographical information (properly cited) as you bring CHILDREN OF MEN and CRASH into contact/conflict/crisis.

Dystopic Prompt Number Three:

Salvador Plascencia's PEOPLE OF PAPER introduces us to an iconoclastic fantasyland of invention, pain, and loss--in this vein, Plascencia emerges simultaneously as a bibliophile and a dystopian. Contrast the representation
of literature (of any form of textuality) in PEOPLE OF PAPER with one or two other works we have encountered this semester--do NOT focus on a work you addressed in your Imagination Challenge number one.

Dystopic Prompt Number Four:

Adapt the methology used in Tex[t]-Mex and author an addendum chapter to the book focused on the work of Ballard and/or Cuarón.

Dystopic Prompt Number Five:

Invent your own thesis; email me or present to me in class a written proposal for an independent thesis based on at least two of the works we have encountered since late February (this include Marge Piercy's WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME if you did not use it for paper one). This proposal is (at the latest) IN CLASS or AFTER CLASS, Thursday April 15, 2010.

Facebook and Tex[t]-Mex

Truth be told, I have met so many cool readers/critics/lovers/haters of Tex[t]-Mex through Facebook (simulated fans opposite). So I have decided to open up my social networking site to readers of this blog. So, if you are a regular peruser of Facebook, don't be shy about sending a shoutout!

KPFK, Arellano y Nericcio from January 6, 2009!

A couple of weeks back, Gustavo Arellano had me on his KPFK radio show and the streaming re-broadcast just went live--if you use iTunes, use this link. Prefer using your RSS feed reader? Go here and hit the January 6, 2009 episode; there's a great sequence on LA's Taco Truck wars first and you can hear my dulcet tones, along with Gustavo's sweet guttural utterances, around the 20 minute mark!

update

E.S. chimes in with an SNL skit below--though the joke here is more on Spanish 101 classes than mindless rebroadcast of Latino/a stereotypes!

MLA Bound: Gilbert Hernandez, Birdland, and More!

More soon. Here's a cool interview with Gilbert Hernandez.

London Lecture at the Freud Museum!

One of my globetrotting, incredible students from the London 2005 Summer Program for SDSU recently sent me a video of my lecture there that took place in a unique venue, the one and only Freud Museum. I share it here as it was one of the highpoints of my career--to be allowed to lecture on Freud in his study (shhhhhhhhhhhh: I even sat on the couch when the guard was not looking! órale!).

Thanks to KPBS for the Rerun: Orson Welles's Touch of Evil

KPBS, our local San Diego NPR affiliate, recently replayed an interview with me on Touch of Evil and Tex[t]-Mex; click the image below to tune in!

Monday Morning! | Cinco de Mayo | 2008 @ Mesa College, San Diego

Source for my new logo! Scubamex, the wonderdog!
Here's the rest of the skinny on this cool early Monday Morning Cinco de Mayo gig at Mesa College with former TSP rat pack scribe Tommy Riley--but before that, and to my "friends" y carnales before they ask, NO, repeat NO, I am not pointing to my receding hairline in the promotional image here:
malcriados!

Here's an alternate pose! No worries Beltrán--vanity made me do it.

update!

Arellano, por supuesto, horning in on "our" Cinco de Mayo angle! Nice interview there guapo!

update 2!!

Riley and I will be selling and signing copies of our books right after the gig--drop by and give us a shout out!!!

update 3!!!

a map!


The details:

Join Mesa’s Chicana and Chicano Studies Department, San Diego Mesa College Humanities Institute and local publishing mavericks Calaca Press as they present two masters of the word for Cinco de Mayo 2008.

BARRIO BAROQUE: Rats, Rants, & Other Turf Wars of the Naked Tongue

A book discussion and spoken word performance featuring the literary talents of

SDSU Professor
William "Memo" Nericcio
Tex{t}-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America

and

Former Taco Shop Poet
Tomás Riley
mahcic: selected poems

Monday, May 5, 2008
9:30-11:30am

Room H-117/118
Mesa College
7250 Mesa College Drive
San Diego, CA 92111

FREE and open to the public!

Stereotype deconstructionist Nericcio and metaphor mixing poet Riley form a potent one-two punch of Chicano linguistic insight. By breaking down cultural barriers and building multicultural alliances through their writing these two wordbending marvels bring a much needed ray of light to the latin literary world. Calaca Press and Mesa College are thrilled to collaborate by bringing these two genre defying scribes to campus in what will be a truly entertaining presentation and performance.

Their books: Tex{t}-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America and mahcic: selected poems will be available for sale.

Praise for Nericcio and Riley:

"[Text-Mex] is the closest Latin@ studies has come to a revolutionary vision of how American culture works through its image machines, a vision that cuts through to the roots of the U.S. propaganda archive on Mexican, Tex-Mex, Latino, Chicano/a humanity. Nericcio exposes, deciphers, historicizes, and ’cuts-up’ the postcards, movies, captions, poems, and adverts that plaster dehumanization (he calls them ’miscegenated semantic oddities’) through our brains."

-- David Carrasco, Harvard University

"mahcic gets you open on Riley’s music. A poet who writes like a master DJ: scratching metaphor, mixing cultures and re-mixing themes until he infiltrates your consciousness and makes you recall the gloss before the glitter while warning you about the wind before the storm."

-- Willie Perdomo, author of Where a Nickel Costs a Dime

William Anthony Nericcio travels in various academic disguises, including American Lit scholar, Latin Americanist, Chicana/Chicano Studies devotee/vato, wannabe film studies guru, cultural studies maven, and, last but not least Laredense Tejano acolyte of deconstruction. His book Tex{t}-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America was published in 2007 by University of Texas Press.

Tomás Riley is a poet, writer, educator and a veteran of the seminal San Diego based Chicano spoken-word collective The Taco Shop Poets. His self-released CD Message From the New Forreal debuted in 2003 and his book mahcic: selected poems was published in 2005 by Calaca Press.

This event is organized by Calaca Press, the San Diego Mesa College Chicana and Chicano Studies Department and the San Diego Mesa College Humanities Institute. For more information (including parking) contact Manuel J. Veléz (619) 388-2375 or mvelez@sdccd.edu.

Funding has been provided by San Diego Mesa College Humanities Institute.