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"I Don't Think I Exist": Interview with Richard Rodriguez, in MELUS » Read Now
by Hector A. Torres. 40 pgs.

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...think I exist": interview with Richard Rodriguez. by Hector A. Torres...conducted this interview with Richard Rodriguez in February of 2000 in his...Caliban and Prospero...
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The Invention of Ethnicity ("An American Writer" by Richard Rodriguez begins on p. 3) » Read Now
by Werner Sollors. 294 pgs.

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This important new collection of interdisciplinary essays sets out to chart the cultural construction of "ethnicity" as embodied in American ethnic literature. Looking at a diverse set of texts, the contributors place the subject in broad historical and dynamic contexts, focusing on the larger...
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This important new collection of interdisciplinary essays sets out to chart the cultural construction of "ethnicity" as embodied in American ethnic literature. Looking at a diverse set of texts, the contributors place the subject in broad historical and dynamic contexts, focusing on the larger systems within which ethnic distinctions emerge and obtain recognition. It provides a new critical framework for understanding not only ethnic literature, but also the underlying psychological, historical, social, and cultural forces. Table of Contents: On the Fourth of July in Sitka, Ishmael Reed. Introduction: The Invention of Ethnicity, Werner Sollors. An American Writer, Richard Rodriguez. A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time "Jewesses", Alide Cagidemetrio. Ethnicity as Festive Culture: Nineteenth-Century German-America on Parade, Kathleen Conzen. Defining the Race, 1890-1930, Judith Stein. Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self, Mary Dearborn. Deviant Girls and Dissatisfied Women: A Sociologist's Tale, Carla Cappeti. Ethnic Trilogies: A Genealogical and Generational Poetics, William Boelhower. Blood in the Market Place: The Business of Family in the Godfather Narratives, Thomas Ferraro. Comping for Count Basie, Albert Murray. Is Ethnicity Obsolete, Ishmael Reed, Andrew Hope, Shawn Wong, and Bob Callahan.
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Hispanic-American Writers ("Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory as Humanistic Antithesis" begins on p. 107) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 220 pgs.

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-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights
-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers
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U. S. Latino Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers (Chap. 8 "Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and the Rejection of the Private Self") » Read Now
by Harold Augenbraum, Margarite Olmos Fernandez. 216 pgs.

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In the past ten years, literature by U.S. Latinos has gained an extraordinary public currency and has engendered a great deal of interest among educators. Because of the increase in numbers of Latinos in their classrooms, teachers have recognized the benefits of including works by such important...
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In the past ten years, literature by U.S. Latinos has gained an extraordinary public currency and has engendered a great deal of interest among educators. Because of the increase in numbers of Latinos in their classrooms, teachers have recognized the benefits of including works by such important writers as Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, and Rudolfo Anaya in the curriculum. Without a guide, introducing courses on U.S. Latino literature or integrating individual works into the general courses on American Literature can be difficult for the uninitiated. While some critical sources for students and teachers are available, none are dedicated exclusively to this important body of writing. To fill the gap, the editors of this volume commissioned prominent scholars in the field to write 18 essays that focus on using U.S. Latino literature in the classroom. The selection of the subject texts was developed in conjunction with secondary school teachers who took part in the editors' course. This resultant volume focuses on major works that are appropriate for high school and undergraduate study including Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Latin Deli, Piri Thomas' Down These Mean Streets, and Cisneros' The House on Mango Street.
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Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays ("Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and New Perspectives on Ethnic Autobiography" begins on p. 237) » Read Now
by John R. Maitino, David R. Peck. 350 pgs.

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...Antonio C. Marquez, "Richard Rodriguezs Hunger of Memory and New...Kingston Woman War rior , Richard Rodriguez Hunger of Memory , and Richard...immigrant autobiography;...
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Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography (Chap. 9 "Biculturalism in Contemporary Autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston") » Read Now
by G. Thomas Couser. 285 pgs.

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This work explores the "authority" of autobiography in several related senses: first, the idea that autobiography is authoritative writing because it is presumably verifiable; second, the idea that one's life is one's exclusive textual domain; third, the idea that, because of the apparent congruence...
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This work explores the "authority" of autobiography in several related senses: first, the idea that autobiography is authoritative writing because it is presumably verifiable; second, the idea that one's life is one's exclusive textual domain; third, the idea that, because of the apparent congruence between the implicit ideology of the genre and that of the nation, autobiography has a special prestige in America. Aware of the recent critiques of the notion of autobiography as issuing from, determined by, or referring to a pre-existing self, Couser examines the ways in which the authority of particular texts is called into question--for example, because they involve pseudonymity (Mark Twain), the revision of a presumably spontaneous form (Mary Chesnut's Civil War "diaries"), bilingual authorship (Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston), collaborative production (Black Elk), or outright fraud (Clifford Irving's "autobiography" of Howard Hughes). Couser examines both the way in which canonical autobiographers may playfully and purposely undermine their own narrative authority and the way in which minority writers' control of their lives may be compromised. Autobiography, then, is portrayed here as an arena in which individuals struggle for self-possession and self-expression against the constraints of language, genre, and society.
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Lost in Nostalgia: The Autobiographies of Eva Hoffman and Richard Rodriguez, in MELUS » Read Now
by Petra Fachinger. 18 pgs.

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...autobiographies of Eva Hoffman and Richard Rodriguez by Petra Fachinger...to the United States, and of Richard Rodriguez, a Mexican-American, to demonstrate...of Memory:...
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Anti-Pastoral and Guilty Vision in Richard Rodriguez's Days of Obligation, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language » Read Now
by Paige Schilt. 18 pgs.

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...Anti-Pastoral and Guilty Vision in Richard Rodriguezs Days of Obligation Paige...book Hunger of Memory , Richard Rodriguez defines himself as a specifically...toilet...
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Word Made Flesh: Richard Rodriguez's "Late Victorians" as Nativity Story, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language » Read Now
by Norma Tilden. 18 pgs.

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...Word Made Flesh: Richard Rodriguezs "Late Victorians" as Nativity...autobiography Hunger of Memory Richard Rodriguez writes that for him as a child...that same Latin-rite...
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Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography ("Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory" begins on p. 117) » Read Now
by Paul John Eakin. 249 pgs.

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Paul John Eakin's earlier work Fictions in Autobiography is a key text in autobiography studies. In it he proposed that the self that finds expression in autobiography is in fundamental ways a kind of fictive construct, a fiction articulated in a fiction. In this new book Eakin turns his attention...
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Paul John Eakin's earlier work Fictions in Autobiography is a key text in autobiography studies. In it he proposed that the self that finds expression in autobiography is in fundamental ways a kind of fictive construct, a fiction articulated in a fiction. In this new book Eakin turns his attention to what he sees as the defining assumption of autobiography: that the story of the self does refer to a world of biographical and historical fact. Here he shows that people write autobiography not in some private realm of the autonomous self but rather in strenuous engagement with the pressures that life in culture entails. In so demonstrating, he offers fresh readings of autobiographies by Roland Barthes, Nathalie Sarraute, William Maxwell, Henry James, Ronald Fraser, Richard Rodriguez, Henry Adams, Patricia Hampl, John Updike, James McConkey, and Lillian Hellman. In the introduction Eakin makes a case for reopening the file on reference in autobiography, and in the first chapter he establishes the complexity of the referential aesthetic of the genre, the intricate interplay of fact and fiction in such texts. In subsequent chapters he explores some of the major contexts of reference in autobiography: the biographical, the social and cultural, the historical, and finally, underlying all the rest, the somatic and temporal dimensions of the lived experience of identity. In his discussion of contemporary theories of the self, Eakin draws especially on cultural anthropology and developmental psychology.
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Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (Discussion of Richard Rodriguez begins on p. 100) » Read Now
by Paula M. L. Moya. 235 pgs.

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"Paula Moya's "Learning from Experience is a work of critical intelligence that redefines entire areas of contemporary literary studies, ethnic studies, and feminist studies. Her analyses genuinely illuminate rather than simply reflect an assimilation to critical commonplaces."--Jose David Saldivar...
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"Paula Moya's "Learning from Experience is a work of critical intelligence that redefines entire areas of contemporary literary studies, ethnic studies, and feminist studies. Her analyses genuinely illuminate rather than simply reflect an assimilation to critical commonplaces."--Jose David Saldivar, author of "Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies
"In this volume, Paula Moya provides a comprehensive and astute reading of Chicana literature and literary criticism, as well as an important critique of postmodern theory as it bears on literary criticism and especially the debates over experience, social identity and multiculturalism. Moya is one of the most original and powerful new voices in feminist and postcolonial theory today, offering a needed corrective of some of the current dogmatisms in social theory. "Learning from Experience offers a refreshing new take on the debates over experience, . . . I doubt its importance can be overestimated."--Linda Martin Alcoff, author of "Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory
""Learning from Experience is a refreshingly provocative and incisively written work that challenges fashionable dismissals of identity politics. In so doing it reaffirms the primacy of discursive and socio-political contexts and the epistemic value of experience. Moya's stimulating work has much to offer."--Rosaura Sanchez, author of "Telling Identities, and most recently co-author with Beatrice Pita of "Conflicts of Interest: The Letters of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
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Richard Rodriguez Reconsidered: Queering the Sissy (Ethnic) Subject, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language » Read Now
by Randy A. Rodriguez. 28 pgs.

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...Richard Rodriguez Reconsidered: Queering the Sissy (Ethnic) Subject Randy...reclining on the sofa with a long cigarette holder in hand. Richard Rodriguez 1 Richard...