Michael Nieto Garcia
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922742 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Nieto Garcia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael Nieto |
| FAMILY NAME | Garcia |
| SIGNATURE | GARCIA M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clarkson University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Do brown people have brown thoughts? Richard Rodriguez’s philosophy of race, culture, and identity
Ever since the publication of Hunger of Memory in 1982, Richard Rodriguez has been read by scholars almost exclusively through the lens of identity politics. Twenty years later, in Brown , Rodriguez sought to reconcile some of the contradictions of identity, at least his own. Ultimately, Rodriguez concludes that the contradictions of identity cannot be reconciled. Our identities are always more complex and nuanced than the boxes we try to fit peo…
The Invisible Ethnic
This essay explores the possibilities and constraints of reading texts as ethnic literature. It does so by tracing the master theme of transcendence in Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory and by drawing comparisons with Latino autobiographer and essayist Richard Rodriguez. To date Speak, Memory has transcended categorization as a particular conception of ethnic literature that precludes also reading it as universal. Rodriguez, in contrast, laments t…
Literature as History
The central thesis of Mario T. García’s fascinating and compelling Literature as History is precisely what the book’s title suggests: “Literary narratives are historical texts, and I, as a historian, am interpreting them as such” (p. 18). The extent to which readers will agree or disagree with this provocative thesis depends a great deal on the level of generality with which the claim is stated. It is hard to disagree with the much broader versio…
The Communally Derived Ethnic Self in Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory
This essay offers a reinterpretation of conventional readings of the connection between individualist and assimilationist arguments in Hunger of Memory, and a reconsideration of Rodriguez's depiction of the ethnic self. Ultimately, Rodriguez's individualist stance is a surface posture, underneath which one finds a more fundamental desire for community
Indonesian Publishing
Indonesia is in the midst of a publishing renaissance. The number of published titles doubled in 2003 to a sum greater than any year under Suharto. Titles unimaginable 10 years ago now line bookstore shelves: books about Marx, books by and about ethnic Chinese, and books with the words 'sex' or 'homosexual' and 'Islam' in the same title. In 2000, the publisher of Nobel Prize-nominated author Pramoedya Ananta Toer released a special Emancipation E…
The Communally Derived Ethnic Self in Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory
This essay offers a reinterpretation of conventional readings of the connection between individualist and assimilationist arguments in Hunger of Memory, and a reconsideration of Rodriguez's depiction of the ethnic self. Ultimately, Rodriguez's individualist stance is a surface posture, underneath which one finds a more fundamental desire for community
Indonesian Publishing
Indonesia is in the midst of a publishing renaissance. The number of published titles doubled in 2003 to a sum greater than any year under Suharto. Titles unimaginable 10 years ago now line bookstore shelves: books about Marx, books by and about ethnic Chinese, and books with the words 'sex' or 'homosexual' and 'Islam' in the same title. In 2000, the publisher of Nobel Prize-nominated author Pramoedya Ananta Toer released a special Emancipation E…
The Communally Derived Ethnic Self in Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory
This essay offers a reinterpretation of conventional readings of the connection between individualist and assimilationist arguments in Hunger of Memory, and a reconsideration of Rodriguez's depiction of the ethnic self. Ultimately, Rodriguez's individualist stance is a surface posture, underneath which one finds a more fundamental desire for community
Literature as History
The central thesis of Mario T. García’s fascinating and compelling Literature as History is precisely what the book’s title suggests: “Literary narratives are historical texts, and I, as a historian, am interpreting them as such” (p. 18). The extent to which readers will agree or disagree with this provocative thesis depends a great deal on the level of generality with which the claim is stated. It is hard to disagree with the much broader versio…
The Invisible Ethnic
This essay explores the possibilities and constraints of reading texts as ethnic literature. It does so by tracing the master theme of transcendence in Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory and by drawing comparisons with Latino autobiographer and essayist Richard Rodriguez. To date Speak, Memory has transcended categorization as a particular conception of ethnic literature that precludes also reading it as universal. Rodriguez, in contrast, laments t…
Do brown people have brown thoughts? Richard Rodriguez’s philosophy of race, culture, and identity
Ever since the publication of Hunger of Memory in 1982, Richard Rodriguez has been read by scholars almost exclusively through the lens of identity politics. Twenty years later, in Brown , Rodriguez sought to reconcile some of the contradictions of identity, at least his own. Ultimately, Rodriguez concludes that the contradictions of identity cannot be reconciled. Our identities are always more complex and nuanced than the boxes we try to fit peo…
Philosophy (5 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)