original posting: 5/21/08 | via https://textmex.blogspot.com/2008/05/old-school-autobiographies-at-la.html In 1988, when I was still a wee young thing, finishing my dissertation in Comparative Literature at Cornell and working as an assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut, I published my first essay in a journal called Americas Review (née Revista Chicano-Riqueña) edited…

The Director’s Cut: Chico and the Man, Freddie Prinze, and the Sonic #Mextasy of Spanish-accented English in a Small Texas Bordertown William “Memo” Nericcio | 20, June 2022 Nota bene: A shorter, edited version of this piece originally appeared 20 June 2022 as a part of the Kojak Your Enthusiasm series (#24) on 70s television by Josh Glenn and his crew of hermenauts on Hilobrow.com. What appears below is the full…

In 2016 I was asked to do a series of blog postings for Latino Studies at Duke University (thx Claudia Millan!) … here is a reposting here on my Medium channel! The program hangs out here: https://latinostudies.duke.edu @rroba is defunct I think! But the posts are still live here: https://latinostudies.duke.edu/william-nericcio 9.30.16 | Thank You Arrob@! …

From Border Lives: Personal Essay on the U.S.-Mexico Border Harry Polkinhorn, et al., eds. (translated by Tomàs Di Bella and Harry Polkinhorn), 1995, Trade paperback: 680 pages; illustrated, ISBN 968–7326–19–0; $25 plus shipping/handling | On sale now via Amazon.com! More images from this book appear here. ‘She lacerates herself with…

by William A. Nericcio original source: eyegiene.sdsu.edu nota bene! You are looking at an unedited reading script from a public lecture — it is NOT FOR QUOTATION OR ATTRIBUTION. The images that appear in this essay are ©2001 W. Nericcio and are not for reproduction without direct written authorization. The…

Mexican poet and author ROSARIO CASTELLANOS (1925–74) wielded mad intellectual superpowers in a nation not always noted for nurturing progressive feminist ambiente. Her semi-autobiographical 1957 novel Balún-Canán (translated as The Nine Guardians) unveils salient and sordid details of class hatred and racialized loathing particular to the Chiapas region of Mexico…