Days of Obligation, Richard Rodriguez
Days of Obligation, Richard Rodriguez
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Days of Obligation

Author: Richard Rodriguez

Narrator: Michael Anthony

Unabridged: 8 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/22/2005

Synopsis

Rodriguez portrays Mexico and the United States as moral rivals for California. Tragic Mexico and the comedic United States, ironically, have traded roles by the end of the twentieth century. Rodriguezs ferocious essays are no more regional than were Montaignes. His play of ideas and incident, the scope of these essays, becomes a spiritual autobiography.

About Richard Rodriguez

Over three decades, Richard Rodriguez authored a "trilogy" on American public life and his private life: Hunger of Memory; Days of Obligation; and Brown-concerned respectively with class, ethnicity, and race in America. He has also worked as a journalist on television and in print.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tanya

This is a short discussion essay I wrote in Spring 2007 regarding this book: What if I Am You?: Cultural Hybridity in Richard Rodriguez’s Days of Obligation Tanya Collings What if we are not diverse? What if I feel myself becoming like you? What does that mean? What if I find myself weeping reading you......more

Goodreads review by Erica

My god, the language. Many of the critiques against him are probably true--that he is conservative, curmudgeonly, self-loathing, everyone-loathing, elitist--but the language is so hypnotizing and the nuanced and well-informed and I don't care. Haunting to read in January 2017. I can't pull many quot......more

Goodreads review by Aurora

I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would--Rodriguez is a phenomenal essayist, and I really liked how well all of this tied together, how well it all worked, and how well it was written. I know that's a little repetitive, but it really cannot be overstated how good of a writer Rodriguez was.......more

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