The Latino body : crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory

Publication Data

• Title The Latino body : crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory
• Author Lázaro Lima
• Publisher New York University Press
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location New York
• Language English

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.

Topics

• American literature :: Mexican American authors :: History and criticism
• Mexican Americans :: Ethnic identity
• Mexican Americans :: Historiography
• Mexican Americans in literature
• Chicano movement
• Mexican American literature (Spanish) :: History and criticism

The Latino body : crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory by Lázaro Lima. ISBN 9780814752159. Published by New York University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.