INCONMENSURABLE: AN ARCHIVE OF THE UNSPOKEN

<p><em>Inconmensurable: An Archive of the Unspoken</em> is a creative nonfiction hybrid work that blends memoir, photographic storytelling, film analysis, and imagined reality to interrogate the complicated nature of inheritance. This project grapples with themes of mixed identity, insider and outsider politics, Indigenous storytelling, movement, silence, erasure, survival, loss of language, and longing. Reckoning with generational trauma and hidden truth through centering the mysterious life of my immigrant father, <em>Inconmensurable</em> illuminates the necessity of acknowledging the stories of those that come before us—the painful, the joyful, the immeasurable love. Ultimately, love is central to this intimate engagement with familial history, balancing the known and the unknown, the spoken and the unspoken, to honor the ways we’re irrevocably linked.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2023

Author dc:creator

• Garcia, Camila L

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jennifer Howard

• Family
• History
• Immigration
• Film
• Photography
• Identity
• Mexico
• Indigenous
• Mixed
• Zapotec

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.nmu.edu/theses/754

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.nmu.edu:theses-1798