Abstract

The article is focused on the reintepretation of the genre of spritual autobiography in Richard Rodriguez`s novel Darling Rodriguez`s autobiographical prose depicts his extremely embittered attitude to heritage and the pitfalls lurking at the crossroads of cultural practices. For a long time, this author had been placed outside the canon of Chicago literature and was considered an "outsider" because of his statment that he was not a representative of a minority but a supporter of the assimilation of migrants into the broader mainstream american siciety.