Body signs
Subtitle: the Latino/a body in cultural production
By: Astrid M. Fellner (ed.).
Contributors: International Congress of Latino Cultures in North America; International Congress of Latino Cultures in North America (10th : 2002 : University of Vienna)
Series: American studies in Austria -- volume 6; American studies in Austria -- v. 6.
Publisher: Lit
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Zürich; Münster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9783643901828
Subjects: Human body in popular culture; Congresses; Body image; Body image in literature; Hispanic Americans; Ethnic identity; American fiction; Themes, motives
Other titles: Latino/a body in cultural production
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Corporeality and textuality in U.S. Latino/a cultural productions / Astrid M. Fellner; title: Unpacking America's boxed gifts : from Cabeza de Vaca to Donald Duck / Juan Bruce-Novoa; title: Disordered bodies and the great chain of being, a history without end : Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá's La noche oscura del Niño Avilés / John V. Waldron; title: "Malintzi of the green dress will open the door" : The plumed serpent, Foucault's History of Sexuality and colonial forgetting / Claudia Leitner; title: War wounds : bodily inscriptions of trauma and cultural memory in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony / Alexandra Ganser; title: Body languages/body politics : performativity in John Rechy's city of night and The miraculous day of Amalia Gómez / Markus Heide; title: Mapping a new literary century in the Caribbean / Marcus Embry; title: Subversive bodily acts : the photography of Laura Aguilar / Astrid M. Fellner; title: Bodies and no-bodies in Julia Alvarez's novel ¡Yo! and in her essay collection Something to declare / Doris Einsiedel; title: The body as borderland : reconceptualization of the body in recent Chicana literature / Agenika Köhler; title: Excerpts from Assisted living / Sheil Ortiz Taylor; title: Poems : "Black and white" & "Tres cajas de carton line the western wall" / Juanita Luna Lawhn; title: Excerpts from Redoubt / Cecile Pineda; title: "Salt and skin" / Takeo Rivera.