The crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory Lima, Lázaro. creator text bibliography nyu New York New York University Press c2007 2007 monographic eng

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xiv, 231 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. "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. Lázaro Lima. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and index. n-us--- 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.M4 L54 2007 9780814752142 (alk. paper) 0814752144 (alk. paper) 9780814752159 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0814752152 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2007006121 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007006121.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0730/2007006121-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0733/2007006121-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007006121.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0730/2007006121-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0733/2007006121-b.html DLC 070223 20141010090445.0 14744669