Hunger of Memory

The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Richard Rodriguez

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Dial Press Inc.,U.S.
03 February 2004

Memoirs; Social & cultural history; Ethnic studies; Hispanic & Latino studies; Educational strategies & policy

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.

By: Richard Rodriguez
Imprint: Dial Press Inc.,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 191mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 170g
ISBN: 9780553382518
ISBN 10: 0553382519
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 03 February 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Rodriguezhas authored a ""trilogy"" on American public life and his private life-Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation,andBrown-concerned, respectively, with class, ethnicity, and race in America.He has also worked as a journalist on television and in print.Most recently he wroteDarling,a meditation on the Abrahamicreligions after 9/11.

Reviews for Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Arresting ... Splendidly written intellectual autobiography. --Boston Globe Superb autobiographical essay ... Mr. Rodriguez offers himself as an example of the long labor of change: its costs, about which he is movingly frank, its loneliness, but also its triumph. --New York Times Book Review From the Paperback edition. Arresting ... Splendidly written intellectual autobiography. Boston Globe Superb autobiographical essay ... Mr. Rodriguez offers himself as an example of the long labor of change: its costs, about which he is movingly frank, its loneliness, but also its triumph. New York Times Book Review From the Paperback edition. Arresting ... Splendidly written intellectual autobiography. -- Boston Globe Superb autobiographical essay ... Mr. Rodriguez offers himself as an example of the long labor of change: its costs, about which he is movingly frank, its loneliness, but also its triumph. -- The New York Times Book Review From the Paperback edition.