De la Garza weaves a powerful examination of the complex processes that work together to constrain self-expression in a woman of Mexican ancestry. The book demonstrates the use of a variety of creative and reflexive methodologies, including poetry, prayers, de/reconstructed narratives, autobiography, and letters to historical and cultural female archetypes of Mexican origin. This methodology of art as meditation, for obtaining insight into the dynamics of culture, is used to produce an autoethnographic study of how one can reclaim voice through rigorous interrogation of our own lives as cultural texts. De la Garza offers us a template for a new methodology, as applicable in academic studies of culture as it is in the everyday lives of those seeking to find voice within silenced cultural domains.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-13
9780820467016
eBay Product ID (ePID)
116002310
Product Key Features
Book Title
Maria Speaks: Journeys Into the Mysteries of the Mother in My Life As a Chicana
Author
Sarah Amira De La Garza
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
148 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
230mm
Item Width
160mm
Volume
5
Item Weight
240g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Sarah Amira De La Garza
Issn
1528-6118
Series Title
Critical Intercultural Communication Studies
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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