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My history, not yours : the formation of Mexican American autobiography

Title: My history, not yours : the formation of Mexican American autobiography / Genaro M. Padilla.
Author: Padilla, Genaro M., 1949-
Publication: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1993.

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Description

xiv, 280 pages : portraits; 24 cm

Series Statement

Wisconsin studies in American autobiography

Uniform Title

Wisconsin studies in American autobiography

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-272) and index.

Contents

Recovering Mexican American autobiography -- Autobiographical prefigurations : the encodations of accommodation -- "It is my history, not yours I propose to tell" : history as autobiography in Mariano G. Vallejo's "Recuerdos históricos y personales tocante a la alta California" -- "Yo sola aprendí" : autobiographical agency against testimonial expectations in California women's personal narrative -- Leaving a "clean and honorable name" : Rafael Chacón's "Memorias" -- Lies, secrets, and silence : cultural autobiography as resistance in Cleofas Jaramillo's Romance of a little village girl.

ISBN

0299139700
9780299139704
0299139743
9780299139742

LCCN

93003457

OCLC

ocm27814456
27814456
SCSB-2006504

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library