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Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from December 1998
Editor's note on Richard Rodriguez.
December 22, 1998... The editors are grateful for the assistance of Luz Elena Ramirez on this issue.
At the present moment Richard Rodriguez is a distinctive figure within American letters in at least two important respects. First, he is a public literary...
Richard Rodriguez reconsidered: queering the sissy (ethnic) subject.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1998... I don't like the word "gay." Gay is a word better used for a butterfly, not human beings. Queer says "in your face." Queer says "I'm here whether you like it or not."
Of course... I also think of myself as queer in a sort of Noel Coward...
Anti-pastoral and guilty vision in Richard Rodriguez's Days of Obligation.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1998... The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong man has extended his love to all places; the perfect man has extinguished his. From boyhood I have dwelt on foreign soil, and I know with what grief sometimes the mind...
Word made flesh: Richard Rodriguez's "Late Victorians" as nativity story.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1998... In his 1982 autobiography Hunger of Memory Richard Rodriguez writes that for him as a child the Catholic Church "excited more sexual wonderment than it repressed": "I would study pictures of martyrs--white-robed virgins fallen in death and the...