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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lima, Lázaro.
Imprint:	New York : New York University Press, c2007.
Description:	xiv, 231 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Sexual cultures
Subject:	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. American literature -- Mexican American authors. Chicano movement. Mexican American literature (Spanish) Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity. Mexican Americans -- Historiography. Mexican Americans in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6448578

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ISBN:	9780814752142 (alk. paper) 0814752144 (alk. paper) 9780814752159 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0814752152 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and index.

Table of 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.

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