Claiming Personas and Rejecting Other-Imposed Identities
Self-Writing as Self-Righting in the Autobiographies of Richard Rodriguez
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3806733 |
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| Authors | Laura Fine (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 119-136 |
| Publication date | 1996-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2010.0309 |
| OpenAlex | W2085076282 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This article concerns Rodriguez's attempt to shape his own identities in defiance of the identities his family and his critics have tried to impose on him. His texts witness a tension between self-revelation and self-masking more complex than his critics have given him credit for
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Humanities · Linguistics · Literature · Persona · Psychoanalysis · Revelation · Self · Sociology · Witness · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Latin American and Latino Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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