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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790162103321

Autore

Lima Lázaro

Titolo

The Latino Body [[electronic resource] ] : Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory / / Lázaro Lima

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2007

ISBN

0-8147-6507-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Collana

Sexual Cultures

Disciplina

810.9/86872073

Soggetti

Mexican American literature (Spanish) - History and criticism

Chicano movement

Mexican Americans in literature

Mexican Americans - Historiography

Mexican Americans - Ethnic identity

American literature - Mexican American authors - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

"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.

Sommario/riassunto

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