This article discusses how Richard Rodriguez, in his two autobiographical novels Hunger of Memory and Dialogues With My Father, queers his own life experiences and arrives at a “bricol(l)age” identity. This is neither an essentialist nor a freely floating identity. His cosmopolitan Americanness is anchored in a manifold of communities and(re)balances a broad variety of dichotomies (Catholic-Protestant, México-America, English-Spanish, feminine-masculine, public-private, rational-emotional, urban-rural, close-alienated) that shape his life.
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