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The Latino Body

Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory
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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. Lazaro 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.
Acknowledgments PART I: LONGING HISTORYIntroduction"The American Congo" and the National Symbolic 1 Negotiating Cultural Memory in the Aftermath of the Mexican-American WarNineteenth-Century Mexican American Testimonials and the Squatter and the Don 2 Reading the Corpus DelictiTomas Rivera's Earth and the Chicano Body in the Public Sphere PART II: POSTMODERN GENEALOGIES: THE LATINO BODY, IN THEORY3 The Institutionalization of Latino Literature in the Academy Cabeza de Vaca's Castaways and the Crisis of Legitimation 4 Practices of FreedomThe Body Re-membered in Contemporary Latino Writing ConclusionDemocracy's Graveyard: Dead Citizenship and the Latino Body Notes Works Cited IndexAbout the Author
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