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Author:

Lima, Lázaro.

Title:

The Latino body : crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory / Lázaro Lima.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xiv, 231 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--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.

Contents:

"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.

Series:

Sexual cultures

ISBN:

0814752152 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814752159 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814752144 (alk. paper)
9780814752142 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007006121

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)