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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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Book/TextUse in library E184.M5 P28 1993Off-site

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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
  • Mexican Americans > Biography > History and criticism
  • Mexican Americans > Biography
  • Autobiografie
  • Autobiografische Literatur
  • Chicanos
  • Selvbiografier
  • Mexico
  • Chicanos
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