The Latino Body : Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory / Lázaro Lima.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lima, Lázaro.

Series:

Sexual Cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American literature (Spanish)--History and criticism.

Mexican American literature (Spanish).

Chicano movement.

Mexican Americans in literature.

Mexican Americans--Historiography.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.

American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2007.

New York ; London : New York University Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

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. Analyzing a

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8147-6507-6

OCLC:

780425923