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Lima, Lázaro.

The Latino body : crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory / Lázaro Lima. - New York : New York University Press, 2007. - 231 p. : ill.

"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. HKBU library

YT2025 M09

ISBN: 9780814752142 0814752144 9780814752159 0814752152

Subjects--Topical Terms:
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.

LC Class. No.: PS153 / L732 L 2007