Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers

Period of Performance

6/1/1976 - 5/31/1977

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)


An Intellectual Autobiography: Essays on Language, Literature and Self-Identity by the Son of Nonliterate Immigrant Parents

FAIN: FA-11660-76

Richard Rodriguez
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar (San Francisco, CA 94115)

To write an intellectual autobiography raising important issues of language, literature and the social import of education about a boy from Spanish-speaking parents who became a reader of "high" English Literature at the cost of cultural alienation.