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- Title: Chicano Identity In Chicano Fiction
- Author : Markus Widmer
- Release Date : January 30, 2003
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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In this essay, I will address the question of Chicano identity by investigating two very different texts, that both deal with a quest for identity in a Mexican-American context: Tomás Rivera's ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him and Richard Rodriguez Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez. I will first discuss the contextual differences between the two works. Then I will consider the definitions of identity upon which the texts are based. Going deeper into the works themselves, I will finally discuss along which lines the two quests for identity develop. In conclusion, I will connect my investigations to the question of whether Chicano identity is unified or fragmented. Both Tomás Rivera's ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him and Richard Rodriguez Hunger of Memory are about an individual searching for his identity. In both works, the protagonist is a Mexican-American or Chicano. However, the differences between the two books are huge. The generic difference is most obvious: Rivera's work is a fictional narrative, which Héctor Calderón termed novel-as-tales'.1 Rodriguez, referring to his book, speaks of [e]ssays impersonating an autobiography (p. 7). This entails that the subject searching for identity is, in Rodriguez case, the author himself, or rather his literary image. In Rivera's case, the subject is purely fictional, although some critics have identified this literary subject with the author. Seminar paper aus dem Jahr 1998 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 2 (B), University of Aberdeen (English Department), Veranstaltung: Chicano Fiction, 9 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch.