Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: A Tale of Two Richards: On Reference and Ethnic Identity in Autobiography -- 1: Autobiographical Double Consciousness: The Ethnic Self as Representative Man in Richard Wright's Hybrid Autobiography -- 2: The Black Existentialist and Collective Racial Experience: "Manning Up" the Ethnic Übermensch in Richard Wright's Black Boy -- 3: The We in Me: The Communally Derived Ethnic Self in Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory -- 4: En el Nombre del Padre: The Immigrant Father as the Manikin of Autobiography, and Its Agon with the Print Culture Self in Richard Rodriguez's Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father -- 5: The Inauthentic Ethnic: Richard Rodriguez's Brown and Resisting Essentialist Narratives of Ethnic Identity -- EPILOGUE: The Hermeneutic Consequences of Writing While Ethnic -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Back Cover.