A critical discourse analysis of Gisela's family story
A Construal of Deportation, Illegal Immigrants, and Literacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2919512 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie Abraham (0000-0001-5096-4148, University of Georgia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 409-423 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01596306.2014.901937 |
| OpenAlex | W2170015889 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
In this paper, I use critical discourse analysis to analyze a student's narrative about the arrest, incarceration, and deportation of her mother to Mexico. The student, Gisela, was a fifth grader in my classroom during the 2008/2009 school year, and I encouraged the students to collect family stories from their relatives. Gisela created this story, and she wrote and illustrated this with the help of her father, student peers, and me. I draw on Gloria Anzaldúa's constructs of nepantla and nepantlera, narrative analysis, and systemic functional linguistics to show how Gisela's construed this story to create a powerful and creative narrative that disrupted autonomous forms of literacy along with the excluding and damaging discourses circulating about immigrants in our community
Criminology · Critical discourse analysis · Critical literacy · Deportation · Immigration · Linguistics · Literacy · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Gender Studies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |