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...

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Main Author:	Lima, Lazaro (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY New York University Press [2007]
Series:	Sexual Cultures 15
Subjects:	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism Chicano movement Mexican American literature (Spanish) Mexican Americans in literature > History and criticism Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity Mexican Americans > Historiography
Online Access:	DE-1046 DE-1043 DE-858 DE-859 DE-860 DE-739 DE-473 Volltext
Summary:	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
Item Description:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:	9780814765074