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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Re-interpreting: Narratives of childhood language brokering over time
Beteiligte:
Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich;
Phoenix, Ann
Erschienen:
SAGE Publications, 2017
Erschienen in:
Childhood, 24 (2017) 2, Seite 183-196
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1177/0907568216671178
ISSN:
0907-5682;
1461-7013
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Beschreibung:
This article probes how childhood experiences are actively taken into adult lives and thus challenges the unwitting and unintentional reproduction of an adult–child binary in childhood studies. We do this by analyzing interviews with one adult daughter of immigrants from Mexico to the United States at four points in time (ages 19, 26, 27, and 33). Using narrative analysis to examine the mutability of memory, we consider how Eva oriented herself to her childhood story, what was salient and invisible in each recount, the values she associated with the practice, and the meanings she took from her experiences. We show how Eva re-interpreted her experiences as an immigrant child language broker in relation to unfolding life events, showing her childhood to be very much alive in her adult life. Language brokering serves as one way in which to examine the interpenetration of childhood into adulthood, rather than being the focus per se.