The Latino Body : Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory / Lazaro Lima.
2007
PS153.M4 L54 2007
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Title
The Latino Body : Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory / Lazaro Lima.
Author
Lima, Lazaro, author.
ISBN
9780814765074
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2007]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814765074.001.0001 doi
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PS153.M4 L54 2007
Summary
The Latino Body 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. Lázaro Lima charts the interrelated groups that define themselves as Latinos and examines how these groups have responded to calls for unity and nationally shared conceptions of American cultural identity. He contends that their responses, in times of cultural or political crisis, have given rise to profound cultural transformations, enabling the so-called "Latino subject" to emerge.Analyzing a variety of cultural, literary, artistic, and popular texts from the nineteenth century to the present, Lima dissects the ways in which the Latino body has been imagined, dismembered, and reimagined anew, providing one of the first comprehensive accounts of the construction of Latino cultural identity in the United States.
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Sexual Cultures ; ; 15
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
PART I: LONGING HISTORY
Introduction "The American Congo" and the National Symbolic
1. Negotiating Cultural Memory in the Aftermath of the Mexican-American War
2. Reading the Corpus Delicti
PART II: POSTMODERN GENEALOGIES: THE LATINO BODY, IN THEORY
3. The Institutionalization of Latino Literature in the Academy
4. Practices of Freedom
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
PART I: LONGING HISTORY
Introduction "The American Congo" and the National Symbolic
1. Negotiating Cultural Memory in the Aftermath of the Mexican-American War
2. Reading the Corpus Delicti
PART II: POSTMODERN GENEALOGIES: THE LATINO BODY, IN THEORY
3. The Institutionalization of Latino Literature in the Academy
4. Practices of Freedom
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author