Days of Obligation (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Richard Rodriguez
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, History, Arts
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Interracial relationships, Education or educators, Religion, California, West, U.S., San Francisco, Catholics or Catholic Church, Mexico or Mexicans, Pacific Northwest, Protestantism or Protestant churches, Architecture and design
In Days of Obligation, Richard Rodriguez pushes the poetic style of his much-acclaimed memoir Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982) to even more ambitious literary and cultural limits. In the earlier book, Rodriguez dramatized how his successful academic education as a “scholarship boy” painfully but inevitably alienated him from his immigrant parents, and he surprisingly argued against affirmative action and bilingual education. In contrast, Days of Obligation presents a much wider range of personal experience and cultural issues:...
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