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1 online resource (xxi, 215 pages) |
Contents |
A tale of two Richards: on reference and ethnic Identity in autobiography -- Autobiographical double consciousness: the ethnic self as representative man in Richard Wright's hybrid autobiography -- The black existentialist and collective racial experience: manning up the ethnic Übermensch in Richard Wright's Black boy -- The we in me: the communally derived ethnic self in Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of memory -- En el nombre del padre: the immigrant father as the manikin of autobiography and its agon with the print culture self in Richard Rodriguez's Days of obligation: an argument with my Mexican father -- The inauthentic ethnic: Richard Rodriguez's brown and resisting essentialist narratives of ethnic identity -- The hermeneutic consequences of writing while ethnic |
Summary |
Richard Wright was the grandson of slaves, Richard Rodriguez the son of immigrants. One black, the other brown, each author prominently displays his race in the title of his autobiography: Black Boy and Brown . Wright was a radical left winger, while Rodriguez is widely viewed as a reactionary. Despite their differences, Michael Nieto Garcia points out, the two share a preoccupation with issues of agency, class struggle, ethnic identity, the search for community, and the quest for social justice. Garcia's study, the first to compare these two widely read writers, arg |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Rodriguez, Richard, 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
Rodriguez, Richard, 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Rodriguez, Richard, 1944- fast |
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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 fast |
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African Americans in literature.
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Mexican Americans in literature.
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Ethnicity in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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African Americans in literature
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Autobiography in literature
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Ethnicity in literature
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Mexican Americans in literature
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780826355287 |
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0826355285 |
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