Ethnic Identity - United States, Immigrants - United States, Immigrants - Social Conditons, United States Studies - General & Miscellaneous, Pragmatics & Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric, Mexican Americans & Chicanos
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Overview
This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links between narrative discourse and identity construction. The data for the book are Mexican immigrants' personal experience narratives and chronicles of their border crossings into the United States. Embracing a view of identity as a construct firmly grounded in discourse and interaction, the author examines and illustrates the multiple threads that connect the local expression and negotiation of identity to the wider social contexts that frame the experience of migration, from material conditions of life in the United States to mainstream discourses about race and color. The analysis reveals how identities emerge in discourse through the interplay of different levels of expression, from implicit adherence to narrative styles and ways of telling, to explicit negotiation of membership categories.Book Details
Published
October 1, 2003
Publisher
John Benjamins Pub Co
Pages
266
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781588114327