Shame and Pride in Narrative
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9781137348586
Description: This book analyzes personal experiences of language through the voices of Mexican immigrant women, in relation to the racialization discourses that frame the social life of Mexican immigrant communities in the United States. It reveals the power of narrative, understood as a social practice, to validate and give meaning to people's lives.