TY - BOOK AU - Lima,Lázaro TI - The Latino body: crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory SN - 9780814752142 (alk. paper) AV - PS153.M4 L54 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - American literature KW - Mexican American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Mexican Americans KW - Ethnic identity KW - Historiography KW - Mexican Americans in literature KW - Chicano movement KW - Mexican American literature (Spanish) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and index; "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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007006121.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0730/2007006121-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0733/2007006121-b.html ER -