Between worlds: the narration of multicultural/transnational identities of women working in a post-national space
| dc.contributor.advisor | Brooks, Ann | en |
| dc.creator | Pierce, Alice Elizabeth | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-08-28T21:37:18Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2008-08-28T21:37:18Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2003 | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation explores the question: What does it mean to live in-between as an accelerated flow of people moves between worlds? The high-speed of Internet connections, cellular communications and air travel are redefining the traditional notion of a shared history, memory, national identity and language. By using Bakhtin’s literary tools of analysis, the author captures the complexity that characterizes the narration of identities in multicultural/transnational women living in a post-national space during the beginning of the twenty-first century. Few studies in the field of multicultural/bilingual education have applied Bakhtin’s concepts of heteroglossia and chronotope to make meaning out of the complexities in multicultural/transnational identities. Using life history methods as a means of gathering the stories of thirteen multicultural/transnational women who lived in El Cachimbazo, Guatemala, for six months during 2002, the author not only provides a qualitative, alternative perspective on bilingual education but also a new tool to understanding the multiple dimensions of identity construction in multicultural/transnational individuals. | |
| dc.description.department | Curriculum and Instruction | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.identifier | b57186005 | en |
| dc.identifier.oclc | 56889716 | en |
| dc.identifier.proqst | 3119717 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/861 | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.rights | Copyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works. | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Sociolinguistics | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Nationalism | en |
| dc.title | Between worlds: the narration of multicultural/transnational identities of women working in a post-national space | en |
| dc.type.genre | Thesis | en |