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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

Author: Lázaro Lima
Publisher: New York : New York University Press, 2007.
Series: Sexual cultures.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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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. This work also  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lázaro Lima
ISBN: 0814752144 9780814752142 0814752152 9780814752159
OCLC Number: 474177175
Description: xiv, 231 s.
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 : Tomas 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.
Series Title: Sexual cultures.
Responsibility: Lázaro Lima.

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