Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez - Richard Rodriguez

Richard Rodriguez

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

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ISBN 1665239824
EAN 9781665239820
Veröffentlicht Juni 2018
Verlag/Hersteller Tantor
Übersetzer Vorgelesen von Jonathan Davis
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Beschreibung

Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just fifty 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.

Portrait

Over three decades, Richard Rodriguez authored a trilogy on American public life and his private life: Hunger of Memory; Days of Obligation; and Brown-concerned respectively with class, ethnicity, and race in America. He has also worked as a journalist on television and in print.