"Too Much Cream on the Tacos": Narrative and Moral Personhood in "Transfronterizo" Experience

Autor/in	O'Connor, Brendan H.
Titel	"Too Much Cream on the Tacos": Narrative and Moral Personhood in "Transfronterizo" Experience
Quelle	In: Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 12 (2018) 2, S.153-181 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2377-9187
DOI	10.24974/amae.12.2.398
Schlagwörter	Story Telling; Moral Values; College Students; Mexican Americans; Immigrants; Foreign Countries; Cultural Differences; Persuasive Discourse; Spanish Speaking; Ideology; Identification (Psychology); Texas; Mexico + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Collegestudent; Hispanoamerikaner; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Ausland; Kultureller Unterschied; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Ideologie; Mexiko
Abstract	Building on prior analyses of storytelling in migrant and transnational contexts (e.g. Baynham, 2014; De Fina, 2003; Haviland, 2005; Warriner, 2013), this article draws on research with "transfronterizo" (border-crossing) university students in South Texas to explore how transnational speakers use narrative to craft moral arguments in trying times. The article focuses on a single, lengthy narrative from a "transfronteriza" undergraduate named Araís in order to demonstrate how her narrative practice contributes to her "ideological becoming" (Bakhtin, 1981). That is, the analysis shows that the structural, textual, and dialogic features of Araís's narrative are connected both to her emergent, dialogic understanding of her self and to value projects, or efforts to (re)shape the social world, implied in her narrative (Agha, 2015). The analysis illuminates the ethical affordances of "transfronterizo" narrative--i.e., the opportunities that storytelling offered "transfronterizo" students to evaluate their own and others' actions in moral terms. Based on this analysis, I suggest implications for our understanding of narrative and moral personhood among "transfronterizo" students and other migrant and transnational subjects. (As Provided).
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