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Article: Dissonant voices in Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and Luce Irigaray's This Sex Which Is Not One.(Critical essay)
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- Texas Studies in Literature and Language
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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With the publication of Days of Obligation and, more recently, Brown, Richard Rodriguez's scholarship has begun to recognize the theoretical import inherent in the Hispanic writer's autobiographical essays. Juan de Castro most clearly makes this point as he states that "[t]oday, like Gloria Anzaldua or Jose David Saldivar, Rodriguez can be classified as a theorist of the borderlands" (102). This positive assessment of Rodriguez concerns mainly his two latest works which are often read as representing a radical rupture with his first autobiographical essay, Hunger of Memory. (1) In what follows I take de Castro's assessment of Rodriguez as a "theorist" ...