The Latino body
Subtitle: crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory
By: Lázaro Lima.
Series: Sexual cultures
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780814752142; 9780814752159
Subjects: American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism; Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity; Mexican Americans -- Historiography; Mexican Americans in literature; Chicano movement; Mexican American literature (Spanish) -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: "The American Congo" and the national symbolic; title: Negotiating cultural memory in the aftermath of the Mexican-American war : nineteenth-century Mexican American testimonials and The squatter and the don; title: Reading the corpus delicti : Tomás Rivera's Earth and the Chicano body in the public sphere; title: The institutionalization of Latino literature in the academy : Cabeza de Vaca's Castaways and the crisis of legitimation; title: Practices of freedom : the body re-membered in contemporary Latino writing; title: Democracy's graveyard : dead citizenship and the Latino body.