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From: Cross Currents[(essay date spring 1995) In the following essay, Shuter examines Rodriguez's descriptions of the formation of new cultures in Hunger of Memory and Days of Obligation.] Singular and somber, the voice of Richard...
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From: Christian Science Monitor[(review date 17 December 1992) In the following review of Days of Obligation, Henderson comments on Rodriguez's continuing quest for self-identification.] Richard Rodriguez's first book, Hunger of Memory, established...
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From: MELUS[(essay date winter 1984) In the following essay, Rivera explores the concept of divisional experiences in Hunger of Memory and the polarization between the Anglo-Saxon and Latino-American cultures.] [Editor's Note:...
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From: PMLA[(essay date January 1998) In the following essay, Staten explores the conflicts, contrasts, and flaws in Rodriguez's arguments on culture and cultural assimilation in Hunger of Memory.] I When Hunger of Memory: The...
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From: CommonwealBorn in a white neighborhood in Sacramento in 1947, and an editor at the Pacific News Service in San Francisco, [Richard Rodriguez] is part Mexican and all U.S. citizen: twice American. Sociologists and politicians...
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From: Arizona Quarterly[(essay date spring 1997) In the following essay, McNamara discusses the various forms of cultural identity that Rodriguez describes in Days of Obligation, particularly the concept of double consciousness within San...
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From: MELUS[(essay date fall 2009) In the following essay, Perry maintains that Rodriguez's construction of self-image in Hunger of Memory entails a transgression of boundaries that furthers the author's attempt to represent his...
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From: Kirkus ReviewsTen years after his first book, Hunger of Memory, Rodriguez again threatens to redefine the way we think about ethnicity, education, and religion in present-day America. And he does so in disarmingly baroque...
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From: Chicano Controversy: Oscar Acosta and Richard Rodriguez[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Guajardo analyzes the tension between diversity and conformity in Days of Obligation, highlighting the distance from Chicano culture established by Rodriguez's prose style.]...
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From: Commonweal[(review date 26 March 1993) In the following review, Stavans offers a negative assessment of Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father.] It is a complex fate to be an American. James Baldwin liked to...
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From:Nonfiction Classics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Nonfiction Works (Vol. 3. )Many critics have long considered Rodriguez's memoir Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez a confession and apology for his apparent rejection of his Mexican-American roots. For example, Carlos Hortas...
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From: Americas Review[(essay date fall-winter 1988) In the following essay, Villanueva-Collado examines the concepts of cultural separation and cultural alienation as explored in Hunger of Memory and Edward Rivera's Family Installments:...
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From: Texas Studies in Literature and Language[(essay date winter 1998) In the following essay, Schilt studies the pastoral qualities of several of the essays in Days of Obligation.] The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong man has...
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From: The Spectator[In the following essay, Read reviews Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father.] At first sight, these essays by `a gay, Catholic Mexican-American' journalist promise to be of little interest to...
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From: Biography[(essay date spring 1996) In the following essay, Fine examines the development of Rodriguez's cultural perceptions throughout his two autobiographies.] Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez garnered...
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From: Threshold Time: Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Johannessen applies Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of narrative voice to the textual negotiation between private and public self and personal and political tone in Hunger of Memory.]...
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From: The New York Times Book Review[Kirp reviews Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father, by Richard Rodriguez.] It is obvious from the first pages of Days of Obligation why Richard Rodriguez has become not merely famous but notorious—why...
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From: Spectator[(review date 4 March 1995) In the following review, Read offers a positive assessment of Days of Obligation and comments on Rodriguez's exploration of the differences between Anglo-Saxon and Latino-American culture.]...
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From: Americas Review[(essay date spring 1992) In the following essay, Hogue discusses Rodriguez's attempts to create a new style of modernist text with Hunger of Memory.] Two of the most common features of literary modernism are the...
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From: Christian Science Monitor[(review date 12 March 1982) In the following review, Comey discusses Hunger of Memory and Rodriguez's personal struggle with cultural assimilation.] You who read this act of contrition should know that by writing it I...