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

• Autore: Garcia Michael Nieto
• Pubblicazione: Albuquerque, New Mexico : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Edizione: First paperbound printing.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.52
• Soggetto topico: African Americans in literature; Mexican Americans in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Autobiography in literature
• 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>
• Titolo autorizzato: Autobiography in black and brown
• ISBN: 0-8263-5528-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787029903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II