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 Lopez, and other Chicano/Latino marionettes prancing about our first world visual emporium; parable cameos by Jacques Derrida and, a dirty joke
Lupe Velez 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"
