Richard Rodriguez: a master of the personal essay, has authored three books of intensely private memory woven with considerations of the great public issues of ...

Richard Rodriguez, Ree-car-do, as Father Huerta calls him, has written numerous essays chronicling his struggle to make sense of himself as an “American” of ...

Richard Rodriguez: a master of the personal essay, has authored three books of intensely private memory woven with considerations of the great public issues of ...

Free Essay: In Richard Rodriguez, "Days of Obligation he is comparing and contrasting Mexico and California and how they are similar and different to each.

A Pulitzer Prize Finalist Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative...

Dec 24, 2014 · His second memoir, Days of Obligation: An Argument with my Mexican Father, however, has a Ph.D – not so much in English but in cultural studies ...

Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Fatherby Richard RodriguezTHE LITERARY WORK A densely interwoven collection of ten essays, set in California ...

Richard Rodriguez analyzes the cultures of two places that have different points of view about how life should be lived in his book “Days of Obligation”.

Ostensibly a walk among tragedy, comedy, Catholicism, ethnicity, and education, Days of Obligation speaks of and to Latinos/Latinas (especially Californians).

About the Author. Richard Rodriguez: a master of the personal essay, has authored three books of intensely private memory woven with considerations of the great ...