by Richard Rodriguez · Random House Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780553382518
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«Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez» is Richard Rodriguez's autobiography in hardback (224 pages, in English).
The work narrates Richard Rodriguez's bilingual childhood in Sacramento, his entry into school with little English, and his career through university. The work reflects on the cost of assimilation: academic success distances him from his family and culture, and on bilingual education, affirmative action, and the role of language in identity.
The work was originally published in 1981; this reprint appeared in 2004. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the California Book Award.
For readers interested in memoirs, education and cultural identity, and the Mexican-American experience in the United States.
Richard Rodriguez is an American writer who became famous as the author of the 1982 autobiography Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, a narrative about his intellectual development.
