SOURCE: McNamara, Kevin R. “A Finer Grain: Richard Rodriguez's Days of Obligation.” Arizona Quarterly 53, no. 1 (spring 1997): 103–22.
In the following essay, McNamara discusses the various forms of cultural identity that Rodriguez describes in Days of Obligation, particularly the concept of double consciousness within San Francisco's homosexual community.
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