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The Latino Body : Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory.
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 thes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Sexual cultures.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; PART I: LONGING HISTORY; Introduction "The American Congo" and the National Symbolic; 1 Negotiating Cultural Memory in the Aftermath of the Mexican-American War Nineteenth-Century Mexican American Testimonials and The Squatter and the Don; 2 Reading the Corpus Delicti Tomás Rivera's Earth and the Chicano Body in the Public Sphere; PART II: POSTMODERN GENEALOGIES: THE LATINO BODY, IN THEORY; 3 The Institutionalization of Latino Literature in the Academy Cabeza de Vaca's Castaways and the Crisis of Legitimation.
- 4 Practices of Freedom The Body Re-membered in Contemporary Latino WritingConclusion Democracy's Graveyard: Dead Citizenship and the Latino Body; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author.