The Speedy Gonzales of Zoot-Suit Derrideanism
William Anthony Nericcio, Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America (University of Texas Press, 2006) . The irony of William Nericcio’s psychoanalysis (schizoanalysis?) of apparitions of The Mexican in the dream life of American culture is that Nericcio himself embodies—even as he appropriates and subverts—the stereotype of the Spanglish-speekeeng Trickster figure, tunneling under the […]