248 pages, [16] pages of plates : 27 cm

Inspiring ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" toilets

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index

Nonhallucinatory prefatory Palabras ... -- Backstory: a decidedly odd tale of what happened when Hollywood killed Vaudeville, postcards boomed, and the United States invaded Mexico -- Seductive hallucination Gallery One: an interstice: Being the first of several summary interruptions of the drearily semantic in favor of the deliciously semiotic, a Frontera of sorts -- Hallucinations of Miscegenation and murder: dancing along the Mestiza/o borders of proto-Chicana/o cinema with Orson Welles's Touch of Evil -- When electrolysis proxies for the existential: a somewhat sordid meditation on what might occur if Frantz Fanon, Rosario Castellanos, Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Spivak, and Sandra Cisneros asked Rita Hayworth her name at the Tex[t]-Mex beauty parlor -- Autopsy of a rat: sundry parables of Warner Brothers Studios, Jewish American Animators, Speedy Gonzales, Freddy López, and other Chicano/Latino marionettes prancing about our first world visual emporium; Parable cameos by Jacques Derrida; and, a dirty joke -- Lupe Vélez regurgitated; or, Jesus's Kleenex: cautionary, Indigestion-inspiring ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" toilets -- Seductive hallucination Gallery Two: interstice the second: Being a second archive of visual pathogens -- XicanOsmosis: Frida Kahlo and Mexico in the eyes of Gilbert Hernandez -- Conclusion: (with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche) "Have I been understood? XicanOsmosis versus the Tex[t]-Mex."

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