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Hunger of memory: the education of Richard Rodriguez: an autobiography

✍ Scribed by Rodriguez, Richard

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group; Bantam Books
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
115 KB
Edition
Bantam trade paperback edition
Category
Fiction
City
California, United States., California.
ISBN
0553898833

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✦ Synopsis

Middle-class pastoral -- Aria -- The achievement of desire -- Credo -- Complexion -- Profession -- Mr. Secrets.;Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey of a "minority student" who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation ' from his past, his parents, his culture ' and so describes the high price of "making it" in middle-class America. Provocative in its positions on affirmative action and bilingual education, Hunger of Memory is a powerful political statement, a profound study of the importance of language . and the moving, intimate portrait of a boy struggling to become a man. From the Paperback edition.

✦ Subjects

United States

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