The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory

by Lazaro Lima

Book Overview

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. L zaro 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814752152
• ISBN13: 9780814752159
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"