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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787029903321

Autore

Garcia Michael Nieto

Titolo

Autobiography in black and brown : ethnic identity in Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez / / Michael Nieto Garcia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, New Mexico : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8263-5528-5

Edizione

[First paperbound printing.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

813/.52

Soggetti

African Americans in literature

Mexican Americans in literature

Ethnicity in literature

Autobiography in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : 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 -- Epilogue :The hermeneutic consequences of writing while ethnic.

Sommario/riassunto

"An important contribution to the study of American life writing and an invaluable reassessment of the work of Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez."-Robert J. Butler, coeditor of <em>The</em> <em>Richard</em> <em>Wright</em> <em>Encyclopedia</em>