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UNINA9910787029903321 |
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Autore |
Garcia Michael Nieto |
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Titolo |
Autobiography in black and brown : ethnic identity in Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez / / Michael Nieto Garcia |
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Albuquerque, New Mexico : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Edizione |
[First paperbound printing.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African Americans in literature |
Mexican Americans in literature |
Ethnicity in literature |
Autobiography in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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> |
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