The Latino Body : : Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory / / Lazaro Lima.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Lima, Lazaro,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Sexual Cultures ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

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