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.
| ISBN: | 9780820467016 |
| Publication date: | 27th April 2004 |
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| Publisher: | Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 148 pages |
| Series: | Critical Intercultural Communication Studies |
| Genres: |
Communication studies Society and culture: general Gender studies: women and girls Social groups: religious groups and communities Sociology and anthropology |
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.
María Speaks features in the following genres: Communication studies, Society and culture: general, Gender studies: women and girls, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Sociology and anthropology
María Speaks is available in Paperback
María Speaks was written by and published by Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
María Speaks has 148 pages
Yes it is part of Critical Intercultural Communication Studies series