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Dead subjects : toward a politics of loss in Latino studies /

Examines how Lacanian theory lends itself to a new way of thinking about ethnic-racialized subjectivity, applying it to notions of Latino/a subjectivity and experience in particular.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Viego, Antonio, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • All the things you can't be by now
  • Hollowed be thy name
  • Subjects-desire, not egos-pleasures
  • Browned, skinned, educated, and protected
  • Latino studies' Barred subject and Lacan's Border subject, or Why the hysteric speaks in Spanglish
  • Hysterical ties, Latino amnesia, and the Sinthomestiza subject
  • Emma Pérez dreams the breach : rubbing Chicano history and historicism 'til it bleeds
  • The clinical, the speculative, and what must be made up in the space between them
  • Ruining the ethnic-racialized self and precipitating the subject.