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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
[2014]
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xxi, 215 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780826355287 0826355285 |