A Study Guide for Richard Rodriguez's ''Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez''

Description

Provides literary and historical background on the most commonly studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies and memoirs. Entries also include original critical essays written by academics in the field, supplemented by full or excerpted previously published essays. Provides approximately 50 illustrations, including historical maps, a chronology of important literary and world events and a glossary of key terms. Includes a comprehensive general index as well as author, theme and nationality/ethnicity indexes. Foreword : "Literature : conversation, communication, idea, emotion" / Carol Dell' Amico -- The affluent society (by John Kenneth Galbraith) -- Autobiographies (by William Butler Yeats) -- The autobiography of Malcolm X (by Malcolm X) -- Backlash : the undeclared war against American women (by Susan Faludi) -- Coming of age in Mississippi (by Anne Moody) -- Hunger of memory : the education of Richard Rodriguez (by Richard Rodriguez) -- The interpretation of dreams (by Sigmund Freud) -- I remain in darkness (by Annie Ernaux) -- I will bear witness : a diary of the Nazi years, 1933-1941 (by Victor Klemperer) -- News of a kidnapping (by Gabriel García Márquez) -- Operating instructions (by Anne Lamott) -- Self-reliance (by Ralph Waldo Emerson) -- Shadow and act (by Ralph Ellison) -- A theory of justice (by John Rawls) -- Walden (by Henry David Thoreau).