Autobiography and the Gender of Place: Elena Zamora O’Shea, Fray Angélico Chávez, Richard Rodriguez

2017 ◽  
pp. 45-72
Author(s):  
Melina V. Vizcaíno-Alemán
Keyword(s):  
Richard Rodriguez

scholarly journals Alternative Ways of Challenging and Resisting in Richard Rodriguez’s Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-64
Author(s):  
Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Writing Strategies ◽  
Richard Rodriguez ◽  
Spiritual Autobiography ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The World

Abstract There are several reasons why essayist Richard Rodriguez could be classified as a ‘minority’ writer; namely, his Mexican-American roots, his Catholic faith, and his self- declared homosexuality. However, readers who expect his writings to display the kind of attitudes and features that are common in works by other ‘minority’ authors are bound to be disappointed. The meditations that Rodriguez offers are far from clearly dividing the world between oppressors and oppressed or dominant and subaltern. As he sees it, ethnic, religious, class or sexual categories and divisions present further complications than those immediately apparent to the eye. Does this mean that Rodriguez fails to resist and challenge the dynamics he observes between different social groups? Or that his observations are complaisant rather than subversive? Not necessarily, since his essays are always a tribute to the possibilities of disagreement and defiance. My analysis of his latest collection of essays, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013), maps out and dissects the writing strategies that Rodriguez employs to generate dialogical forms of inquiry and resistance regarding such up-to-date topics as religious clashes (and commonalities), Gay rights (in relation to other Human Rights) or how public spaces are being re-imagined in this global, digital era.

The Desertification of Society: A Conversation with Richard Rodriguez

2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Spencer Herrera ◽  
Richard Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Richard Rodriguez

"I Don't Think I Exist": Interview with Richard Rodriguez

MELUS ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hector A. Torres ◽  
Richard Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Richard Rodriguez

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

1983 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 472
Author(s):  
Michael A. Olivas ◽  
Richard Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Richard Rodriguez

Mexican American (Chicana/o)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick Luis Aldama
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
Time History ◽  
Gloria Anzaldua ◽  
Ana Castillo ◽  
Space Region ◽  
Richard Rodriguez ◽  
Cherrie Moraga ◽  
Arturo Islas ◽  
Jose Limon

Discussions and debates in and around the formation of Mexican American letters, including its periodization and formulations of its unique ontology, are reviewed, and discussions and analysis of key literary phenomena that have shaped in time (history) and space (region) Mexican American and Chicana/o letters are presented. Foundational scholars such as María Herrera-Sobek, Luis Leal, José Limón, and Juan Bruce-Novoa are considered along with scholar-creators such as Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga. A wide variety of Mexican American and Chicana/o authors of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction are reviewed, including Alurista, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Marío Suárez, Arturo Islas, Richard Rodriguez, and Ana Castillo, among many others.

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