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

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Index 215 Acoma Indians: 1598 insurrection, 91– 92; 1998 anniversary, 122–23; battle of Ácoma peñol, 121–22; and Villagrá, 119–20. See also Oñate Adorno, Rolena, “Discursive Encounter,” Cabeza de Vaca and Las Casas, 103, 193n21 Alianza Federal de las Mercedes (Federal Alliance of Land Grants), separatist movement, 76 Álvarez, Julia, 131 Amazons: Umpierre on, 133, 139; in Columbus and Vespucci (Piedra), 196n14 America/American: cultural identity, 14; national body politic not recognizing difference as its own creation, 25; social symbolic function of terms, 13–14, 175n1 “(The) American 1848,” 25, 27, 55, 58, 59, 170–72 American Congo. See Bourke, John Gregory, “The American Congo” American G.I. Forum, 189n27 Americas Review, 93 Amerindians: and American cultural identity, 14; body, control and domination , 39, 40; and Cabeza de Vaca, 101– 5; woman’s body (Vespucci), 132–33 Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities , 12, 29–30; national amnesias from cultural crises, 14; and photography, 28–29; print-capitalism, 175n3 Andrade, Oswald de, “Cannibalist Manifesto ,” 124–25; critical practices that consume Amerindian culture, 125; Europe constitutes itself through gluttonous incorporation of Other, 124–25 Anzaldúa, Gloria, Borderlands, 128–29; U.S.-Mexico border as wound, 129, 173. See also Moraga, Cherríe, and Gloria Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back Arizona, 5, 22 Atget, Eugene, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” 62 Augenbraum, Harold and Margarita Fern ández Olmos, eds., Latino Reader, 99; beginning Latino literature with Castaways , 99, 100; Cabeza de Vaca as “important symbolic function,” 99 Augustine, and Israelites losing identity with Egyptian food, 109 Austin, Stephen Fuller, 66 Ávila de Rios, Catarina, Memoirs of Doña Catarina Ávila de Ríos, 16, 23, 54, 171; knowledge of violence and western expansion , 44, 45; and miscegenation, 54; refuses to give husband’s papers to Savage, 42, 45–46, 183n30; San Miguel massacre, 42–44; as subaltern refusing to speak, 46 Aztlán (Aztec mythic homeland), 17, 54; Aztlán and Vietnam (Mariscal), 80–81; and Leal, 191–92n7; Padilla invocation , 93; “Plan espiritual de Aztlán, 76– 77; Plan based on Ten-Point Program for Black Empowerment, 190n40 Bancroft, Hubert Howe, History of California project, 23, 26–27, 171, 179n2; exact number of testimonials or “autobiographies ” not unclear, 181n12; desire for Ríos papers, 42; heterotopia, 30; minimization of Mexican American women, 27. See also Ávila de Rios, Catarina , Memoirs; Pérez, Eulalia, An Old Woman and Her Recollections Bancroft Collection. See Bancroft, Hubert Howe, History of California project Barthes, Roland, Camera Lucida, 32; body as subject’s proxy, 32; studium and punctum, 32 Bataille, Georges, and “nonproductive expenditure,” 150 Baudrillard, Jean, Simulations, 148; and Butler, 148, 198n37; and Sarduy, 198n37 “becoming historical,” and Andrés Bello, 11, 170–73 Bello, Andrés, 11; “Autonomía cultural de America,” 11; “narrative method” for “becoming historical,” 11 Benjamin, Walter, 20, 46, 169; photos of crime scenes, 62, 164 Bergland, Betty, “Reading Photographs,” and visual texts, 30–31, 181n15 Berlant, Lauren Gail, Queen of America, 69, 176n10; and National Symbolic, 9 Bhabha, Homi, Nation and Narration, 12; interstices of national belonging, 25 Bible: Esau, 109; forbidden fruit, 109; “In the beginning was the Word,” 123; Lazarus of Bethany, 111–12, 120; “just as the body is one,” 146; “unless you eat the flesh,” 112, 124 Black Panthers, 190n40 body. See Latino body Boricua, 130; body in sexile, 131; explanation of word, 196n7; transnational body (Luz María Umpierre), 139, 172 Bornstein, Kate, Gender Outlaw, 198n33 Bourke, John Gregory, “The American Congo,” 3–5, 8, 9, 175n2; Mexican as racial term, 3; racial tautologies, 5 Bowden, Charles, “While You Were Sleeping ” (Harper’s), 163–65, 167, 199n1; and Benjamin, 165; Juárez as killing field of new world order, 163; photographs , 164–65 bracero accords, 74–75 Brooke, James, “Conquistador Statue,” 91 “brown affect,” as Latino identity modality , 169–70, 173 Bruce-Novoa, Juan, “Naufragios,” 95–99, 172, 192n13; approach doesn’t consider ethical costs, 125; Cabeza de Vaca alterity, 97, 100; Cabeza de Vaca narrative analogous to Chicano plight, 96; Castaways as homeward quest, 105; Chicano Poetry, 192n9; Chicanos as “true American dream” problematic, 97–98; overt literalization of events, 124; sacking of literary-historiographical archive, 100 Buchanan, James, on Treaty Article 9, 53–54 Buckley, R. Philip, phenomenological notion of crisis (Husserl, Heidegger), 175n5 bugarrón, 141, as term from Cuban and Caribbean sexual vernacular, 197n22 Burgos, Julia de, and Margarita Poems (Luz María Umpierre), 131; as foundational mother of Puerto...