Identity in Narrative(English, Hardcover, De Fina Anna)

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Identity in Narrative(English, Hardcover, De Fina Anna) is written by De Fina Anna and published by John Benjamins Publishing Co. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9027226431 (ISBN 10) and 9789027226433 (ISBN 13).

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.