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Autobiography in black & brown : ethnic identity in Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez /

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. Desp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garcia, Michael Nieto (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.