Latino Body

Lázaro Lima is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latino studies at Bryn Mawr College. His website can be found at www.lazarolima.com.

• Acknowledgments PART I: LONGING HISTORYIntroduction"The American Congo" and the National Symbolic 1 Negotiating Cultural Memory in the Aftermath of the Mexican-American WarNineteenth-Century Mexican American Testimonials and the Squatter and the Don 2 Reading the Corpus DelictiTomas Rivera's Earth and the Chicano Body in the Public Sphere PART II: POSTMODERN GENEALOGIES: THE LATINO BODY, IN THEORY3 The Institutionalization of Latino Literature in the Academy Cabeza de Vaca's Castaways and the Crisis of Legitimation 4 Practices of FreedomThe Body Re-membered in Contemporary Latino Writing ConclusionDemocracy's Graveyard: Dead Citizenship and the Latino Body Notes Works Cited IndexAbout the Author

"Reading a wide range of texts, he provides a sophisticated and important critique of the limits of US citizenship for Latinos." (Melus, Vol.34) "An engaging, original, readable work. . . . Highly recommended." (CHOICE) "Limas Latino Body promises to productively disrupt the business-as-usual of critical and scholarly practice in the still-emerging field of U.S. Latino studies; it will contribute directly to the next stage in the long process of what it itself terms Latino identity's 'becoming historical' in North American cultural, political, and intellectual contexts. For this reason alone, The Latino Body could not be more welcome, or more timely." - Ricardo L. Ortiz,Georgetown University "Through a bricolage of carefully crafted textual readings, Lima has produced a text that traces the relationship between corporeality and citizenship by marking the process by which the Latino body has & become historical. Situated in moments of national and bodily crisis, his archive is decidedly precise and imaginatively expansive, metaphorically rich and politically dynamic. Drawing on texts central to third world feminism, queer studies, and Latin and Latino American literatures, this work is as central to rethinking the American literary canon as it is to an invigorating remapping of Latino Studies." - Juana Maria Rodriguez,author of Queer Latinidad