Mextasy Invading University of Arizona, Tucson, for the "Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture" ‪#‎mextasy‬

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Just a quick posting to announce I will be in Tucson, the guest of some very cool graduate students and faculty, for the Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture. The conference runs February 25th and 26th with my keynote on Thursday the 25th!  I can't wait! The entire program is here!

A huge warm thank you y gracias to the Program Coordinators, Claudia Nazario and Andrea Herrera Dulcet. 

The program is entitled "Crossroad Talks: Culture, Identity, Language and Literature in Active Contact Zones" and will be held  February 25-27, 2016, at the Arizona Historical Society Museum, Tucson, Arizona.

Here are the details for the presentation:

Keynote speaker William Nericcio, San Diego State University, presents:

Toxic "Mexican" Digital Mannequins, 
Viral HisPANIC Stereotypes, and Contagious, Smartphone-borne Hate: 
Existential Conundrums for Latinas/os on the Brink of 21st Century Mextasy in the Age of the Digital Humanities                                 

Introduction by Dr. Melissa Fitch
(University of Arizona Campus, ILC 150) map to the ILC
5:45- 6:50pm on Thursday, February 25, 2016

Look Out Ivy League!!! #Mextasy Coming to Penn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Monday, February 22, 2016! "“Cyborg Chicanos, Virtual Latinas, Smartphones, and Digital Culturas Viral, Electric Mutations of Latina/o Stereotypes in the Age of the Internet”"

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“Cyborg Chicanos, Virtual Latinas, Smartphones, and Digital Culturas Viral, Electric Mutations of Latina/o Stereotypes in the Age of the Internet” is the title of the charla/presentation/pop-up exhibition I am bringing on the plane with me to Philly and the University of Pennsylvania Monday, February 22, 2016. I will be presenting from 6pm to 8 or so in Arch 108/109 on the main Penn campus.  Help me spread the palabra by using the hashtag #mextasy on twitter, instagram, and facebook!  See you soon! The event is part of Penn's cool Reclamando Nuestras Voces/ Reclaiming our Voices Penn Festival Latinx 2016

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"Give Us One of Those Latin Bombshell Dances" : Lupe Velez Comic-Generated! Another Great Chapter in the History of Mexicans in American Mass Culture

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Time and again I have tipped my sombrero to the remarkable treasures to be found at Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine, but now he has outdone himself with a post that jibes/gels/fuses with my #textmex and #mextasy researches/art/presentations and more.

One of his latest entries is a comic book from 1951 that fictionalizes the life and times of Lupe Velez--the 'Mexican Spitfire' that figures at the heart of my research in Myra Mendible's From Bananas to Buttocks and in my own Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America {(Quality Comics’ Love Secrets #41 (1941), reprinted from Love Confessions #9 (1951)}

Click the images here to be plunged into mexstatic semiotic pleasure or go to Pappy's blog to read the whole story. Read my interpretation of Lupe Velez's life story--her career in cinema and the tragic climax to her life--here.

email signature: dr. william anthony nericcio

I used to place this on the bottom of all my emails, but then emailing services like google and yahoo thought I was an agent of spam. Now you can enjoy them here in all their glory!

Dr. William Anthony Nericcio

Director, Master of Arts in Liberal Arts & Sciences (MALAS)

Professor, English & Comparative Literature (ENGL), 

Chicana/o Studies (CCS), and Latin American Studies (CLAS)

Director, San Diego State University Press (SDSU PRESS)

Lead Faculty, Digital Humanities @ SDSU

Study Abroad, Summer 2016, LONDON ROCKS

snail mail:           SDSU MC 6020 | A&L 273 | 5500 Campanile Dr.

San Diego, CA 92182-6020

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office phone: 619.594.1524

email: memo@sdsu.edu | bnericci@mail.sdsu.edu

        

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"The Stuff a He-Man's Dreams Are Made Of" | John D. MacDonald's Mexico-based PLEASE WRITE FOR DETAILS, "Hotly Spiced with Latin Savvy," or Yet Another Chapter in the History of "Mexicans" in American Mass Culture (Fawcett Paperback Edition)

The sombrero clues you in to the Cuernavaca
setting for MacDonald's opus

I was stumbling around the internets and chanced upon an old Pulp paperback fiction blog I used to follow, Pop Sensation! There I found John D. MacDonald's PLEASE WRITE FOR DETAILS, a rather minor moment in American literary history, but a treasure trove for Mexican/Mexico/Latina/o stereotype scouts like yours truly.  Check out the original blog posting here or hit the images opposite and below--click them and like most images on this blog, they get more bigger.

As for critical commentary, I don't have much to add--it would be re-going over the endless arguments that appear in Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America! And, dear reader, I care too much for you to do that.  

Nothing says "I know 'Mexicans' like a pipe-foregrounded
author photo!

Merry Christmas from the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog!!!! #mextasy

The shades of Margarita Carmen Cansino, aka Rita Hayworth, Lupe Velez, Ricardo Montalban, Speedy Gonzales (still alive, I think), join me in wishing all the visitors to the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog the merriest and mexiest of Christmases.

Here are some recent graphic desmadres I dreamed up for the upcoming presentations/exhibitions at Penn, Cornell, Arizona, and Kansas--more on those upcoming gigs here!  Own your own by shopping my Society6 tiendita/shoppe here.

Holy Mestizaje, Mr. Spock!!!! #Mextasy Poster Classic

New Poster Over at the Eyegiene/Mextasy Poster Shoppe!

"The Bad Breath of the Devil Will Make Lupita Steal Again!!" Sigmund Freud's Christmas Nightmare! Mexican Santa! Director: René Cardona's Santa Claus, 1959 {October 1960 (USA)}

original posting 12.9.2011 | updated posting 12.22.2012

Merry Christmas y Feliz Navidad from all the loco agents of desmadres at The Textmex Galleryblog...

More on this "holiday classic" here... Lobby cards from this x-mas "classic" below...

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Feliz Navidad and Merry Christmas from the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog

Originally published: 12/22/12 3:46 PM Pacific Standard Time

Wishing you and yours 

a stereotype-free 2014!!!!

Your gift?  The voice

of Speedy Gonzales, Mel Blanc,

crooning a navidad classic,

"The Hat I Got for Christmas is too Big."*

*note: the bizarre lyrics of the

song merely confirm the argument

in Tex[t]-Mex regarding "Mexicans"

as synecdoche for a sordid sort

of sexual potentiality--but I will

hold this comment in reserve

for the rest of the holidays.

Christmas-time Semiotic Legacies of the Mexican Cinema's Golden Age

originally published 12/11/07, 10:16 AM

Tex[t]-Galleryblog would be a Scrooge if it did not share this tasty semiotic artifact I ran across this morning, a lobby card while trawling the visual cultural riches of the internet. Rene Cardona's Santa Claus--think Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer filtered through the mind of a peyote- and absinthe-sodden Ken Russell--is a movie for the ages.

IMDB's listing on this Dante's Inferno-laced holiday classic is here--an Onion review of it is here. Those crazy 'bots on Mystery Science Theater did a send up of Cardona's classic--regular readers of this space who own the DVD are welcome to send me a copy for Christmas, pretty please!

Update:
Holy Mother of God, I have struck the motherload--dig this archive of black & white stills from this glorious and decadent evocation of Santa Claus!

The Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog: Feliz Navidad and Merry Christmas from the Tex[t]-...

The Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog: Feliz Navidad and Merry Christmas from the Tex[t]-...: Originally published:  12/22/12 3:46 PM Pacific Standard Time Wishing you and yours  a stereotype-free 2014!!!! Your gift? ...

Louisiana's TURBOSQUID!!!! Yesterday's Most Pathetic Stereotypes Reimagined for the Digital Age of All our Cyber Tomorrows or Need a Sexy Latina or Bandit for your Animated Video

One of the infamous original members of the Taco Shop Poets and co-conspirator (along with Carlos Solorio) on my Mextasy.TV desmadre, Miguel-Angel Soria seems to have nothing else to do but to send me massive amounts of cyber tidbits filled with thrilling stereotype updates from the world of television and film production.  There, nestled in their dens in Hollywood (and Louisiana), these maniacs are busy building the NEXT generation of hot Latina bombshells, the next iteration of Alfonso Bedoya's I-don't-need-no-steenken-badges Mexican bandit.   Go here or here or here for your morning dose of digitally fine-tuned ethnic mannequins or peek above and below!

I love the way the African American digimannequin may be conceived of as a sexy business woman with some professional edge, whilst the winsome Latina lass's only concrete ontological quality is her essential sexyness--no business chops required!  The company that produces these monstrosities is called Turbosquid, out of Louisiana--maybe ace pinhead Bobby Jindal is associated with these cyberdumb rascals

Ack!!!!

 

"I...I'm an Indian, Susan": Yet Another Chapter in the History of Ethnic Americans and the Comics, Native American Edition

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Pappy keeps striking gold over at Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine--this time it's a comic that Fredric "I Killed the Comics with the Comics Code" Wertham took out of context in his anti-comics Inquisition of the 50s. "Forbidden to Love Him," a First Love comic, features a Native American who can pass--a common tale enough in the 50s when anti-miscegenation laws were the order of things in America. The crowd-scene from the climax, opposite, looks like a snapshot from a pro-Trump rally!

Happy Thanksgiving from the Textmex Galleryblog!

Tons of #Mextasy Gigs on the Horizon (plus a lecture on Breaking Bad and Mad Men in Paris!)... The University of Arizona, Tucson; The University of Kansas, Lawrence; Cornell University, Ithaca; EHESS, Paris

Late 2015 and 2016 are gearing up to be a monster--with Textmex/Mextasy presentation/exhibitions and more on the horizon. Go to my vanity site here for all the links/dates