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The Latino body crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory

Title
The Latino body [electronic resource] : crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory / Lázaro Lima.
Author
Lima, Lázaro.
Publication
New York : New York University Press, c2007.

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Description
1 online resource (xiv, 231 p.) : ill.
Series Statement
Sexual cultures
Uniform Title
Latino body (Online)
Alternative Title
Latino body (Online)
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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and index.
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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.
LCCN
2007006121
OCLC
ssj0000607367
Author
Lima, Lázaro.
Title
The Latino body [electronic resource] : crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory / Lázaro Lima.
Imprint
New York : New York University Press, c2007.
Series
Sexual cultures
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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