The Latino body : crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory /
Author / Creator: | Lima, Lázaro. |
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Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, c2007. |
Description: | xiv, 231 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Sexual cultures |
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Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6448578 |
Summary: | The Latino Body tells the story of the United States Latino body politic and its relation to the state: how the state configures Latino subjects and how Latino subjects have in turn altered the state. Lázaro Lima charts the interrelated groups that define themselves as Latinos and examines how these groups have responded to calls for unity and nationally shared conceptions of American cultural identity. He contends that their responses, in times of cultural or political crisis, have given rise to profound cultural transformations, enabling the so-called "Latino subject" to emerge. |
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Physical Description: | xiv, 231 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780814752142 (alk. paper) 0814752144 (alk. paper) 9780814752159 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0814752152 (pbk. : alk. paper) |