The Latino body : crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory /
Lima, Lázaro.
New York ; London : New York University Press,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and index.
"The American Congo" and the national symbolic -- Negotiating cultural memory in the aftermath of the Mexican-American war : nineteenth-century Mexican American testimonials and The squatter and the don -- Reading the corpus delicti : Tomás Rivera's Earth and the Chicano body in the public sphere -- The institutionalization of Latino literature in the academy : Cabeza de Vaca's Castaways and the crisis of legitimation -- Practices of freedom : the body re-membered in contemporary Latino writing -- Democracy's graveyard : dead citizenship and the Latino body.
American literature
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans in literature.
Chicano movement.
Mexican American literature (Spanish)