Cuento literacies: Multigenerational storytelling in a Chicane family

By applying an empirical autoethnographic analysis of stories passed down in my family I attempt to parry the deficit ideologies in educational discourses, practices, and institutions surrounding the intellectual merit emulated within the Latine storytelling practices across nation- state borders. Guided by a proposed and applied theoretical framework of cuento literacies to illustrate the complex meaning-making processes Latine/Chicane families engage in, I highlight how cuentos (stories) are a literacy practice that fluidly transcends different modalities, engage unique linguistic practices, and reflect the range of navigational tactics used by Latine/Chicane families to survive. Cuentos as a literacy practice reflect the ways stories are passed down in my multigenerational Chicane family as part of a larger ancestral practice that chronicles our sociopolitical histories across, and responses to, settler colonial nation-states. The implications of this work are two-fold; first, to lay the groundwork for theoretical conceptualizations of cuentos as a culturally, historically, and linguistically distinct and valueable literacy practice; and second, to contribute to methodological discussions in education and interdisciplinary fields that recognize intergenerational stories and autoethnographic approaches to educational research as legitimate processes of inquiry.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Curriculum and Instruction

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2024

Author dc:creator

• Garcia, Citlalli Mendoza

Contributors dc:contributor

• González Ybarra, Mónica

• Language And Literacy
• Chicano Literacies
• Latinx Literacies
• Education
• Storytelling
• Autoethnography
• Storywork
• Critical Latinx Indigeneities

Statement dc:rights

• This thesis in its entirety belongs to Citlalli Garcia Mendoza and the Mendoza-Garcia family. Use, reduplication, and distribution of this thesis is prohibited without the approval of all members of the family.

Language dc:language

en, eng

Handle dc:identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/125816

OAI record oai:identifier

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=etdms&identifier=oai%3Awww.ideals.illinois.edu%3A2142%2F125816