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New York University Press, New York, NY [u.a.]
"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 : Tomas Rivera's...
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Universität des Saarlandes, Fachrichtung Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen, Bibliothek
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"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 : Tomas 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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and index
Part I: Longing history -- Introduction: "The American Congo" and the national symbolic -- 1: Negotiating cultural memory in the aftermath of the Mexican-American war: nineteenth-century Mexican American testimonials and The squatter and the don -- 2: Reading the corpus delicti: Tomas Rivera's Earth and the Chicano body in the public sphere -- Part II: Postmodern genealogies: The Latino body, in theory -- 3: The institutionalization of Latino literature in the academy: Cabeza de Vaca's Castaways and the crisis of legitimation -- 4: Practices of freedom: the body re-membered in contemporary Latino writing -- Conclusion: Democracy's graveyard: dead citizenship and the Latino body
