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A 4 page paper in which the writer answer three questions concerning three autobiographies: Rigoberta Menchu's I, Rigoberta Menchu, Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory, and Ariel Dorfman's Rumbo al Sur, Mirado al Norte. The writer discusses these autobiographies in terms of the content on the topic of the Spanish language and in regards to political issues. (The Dorfman text is referred via a book review.) Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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difficult question for this writer/tutor to answer because I have no idea what classification for biographies have been discussed in your class. However, a brief overview of each autobiography may
provide the student with the information needed to make this assessment. Ariel Dorfmans autobiography, Heading South, Looking North, describes his life growing up between the US and Chile (Hill, 2000).
Like Rodriguezs memoir, Dorfman also addresses the tensions and shifting allegiances that are inherent in being both bilingual and bicultural. However, in describing his political commitment and activism in the
student movement of Chile, "Unidad Popula," and its defeat, his autobiography more closely resembles that of Menchu who deals primarily with political issues and protests the involvement of the US
in Guatemala during the Cold War. The political section of Dorfmans book describes Dorfmans experience as he waited in the Argentine embassy for safe conduct out of the country following
Salvador Allendes death in the Moneda Palace when it was bombed by Pinochets forces in 1973 (Hill, 2000). Dorfman confesses that "por primera vez exploro la posibilidad de
vivir en dos lenguas" (as quoted by Hill, 2000, p. 125). According to Hill, this refers to the fact that Dorfman believes that he was alive because someone else was
not (2000). 2. Compare Menchu, Dorfman and Rodriguezs ideas about Spanish and what factors attribute to their differences? While Dorfmans dwells heavily on political issues in his
native Chile, he also, like Rodriguez, addresses the ambiguities encountered as part of being not fully of one culture or the other. To Dorfman, Spanish quite literally becomes a protagonist
in his upbringing as a "bis" that is a bilingual-bicultural individual. As this suggests, Dorfman focuses directly on issues of "home," that is, of where "one is from and where
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