TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarah Amira De la Garza
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1528-6118
TI  - María Speaks
T2  - Journeys into the Mysteries of the Mother in My Life as a Chicana
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1098510
N2  - 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.
KW  - Spiritualität, Texas, Marienverehrung, Kreativität, Chicana, Erlebnisbericht, Spiritual biography, Garza, Sarah Amira de la, Mexican Americans, Mexican American women, Mary, Blessed Virgin, US-Biography
LA  - English
ER  -