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University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque
"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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"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 TheRichardWrightEncyclopedia
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: A Tale of Two Richards: On Reference and Ethnic Identity in Autobiography; 1: Autobiographical Double Consciousness: The Ethnic Self as Representative Man in Richard Wright's Hybrid Autobiography; 2: The Black Existentialist and Collective Racial Experience: "Manning Up" the Ethnic Übermensch in Richard Wright's Black Boy; 3: The We in Me: The Communally Derived Ethnic Self in Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory
4: 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 Father5: The Inauthentic Ethnic: Richard Rodriguez's Brown and Resisting Essentialist Narratives of Ethnic Identity; EPILOGUE: The Hermeneutic Consequences of Writing While Ethnic; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Back Cover