The crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory Lima, Lázaro. creator text bibliography nyu New York New York University Press 2007 monographic eng

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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 Lázaro Lima. YT2025 M09 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 PS153 L732 L 2007 9780814752142 0814752144 9780814752159 0814752152 SDU 070223