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The Latino body : crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory
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The Latino body : crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory / Lázaro Lima.
ISBN
9780814752142
9780814752159
9780814765074 (e-book)
Publication
New York ; London : New York University Press, [2007]
Copyright Notice Date
©2007
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages) : illustrations
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Print version: Lima, Lázaro. Latino body : crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory. New York ; London : New York University Press, c2007
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 08, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.
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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