Name: Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico - Hardcover
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ISBN: 9780814215739

Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico - Hardcover

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by Lillian Gorman (Author)

Winner, 2025 New Mexico Book Awards, Multicultural Category
Finalist, New Mexico Book Awards, BIPOC Author or Subject Category and First Book Category

Working at the intersection of Latina/o/x cultural studies, sociocultural linguistics, and Chicana feminist studies, Lillian Gorman's Zones of Encuentro takes an in-depth look at the cultural and linguistic interactions between two distinct Latina/o/x communities in the region: Nuevomexicanos (Hispanic people who trace their presence in the region to colonial times and whose families have historically spoken Traditional New Mexican Spanish, or TNMS) and first-generation Mexicano immigrants (who tend to speak Mexican Spanish). Gorman examines the everyday lived language experiences and ethnolinguistic identities of Mexicanos and Nuevomexicanos together, specifically through the case of mixed Mexicano-Nuevomexicano families. Through an interdisciplinary critical reading of ethnographic data, pláticas (informal conversations that gather family and community knowledge), interviews, articles, and historical memoirs, Gorman analyzes language ideologies, identity formations, and language practices by exploring complex spaces of encounter within Mexicano-Nuevomexicano families. Zones of Encuentro complicates homogeneous notions of language and identity and contemplates what a shared cultural and linguistic homeplace looks like for Mexicanos and Nuevomexicanos in northern New Mexico.

Author Biography

Lillian Gorman is Associate Professor of Latina/o/x cultural studies and sociolinguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Spanish as a Heritage Language Program. She has contributed to several edited collections related to language and identity in US Latina/o/x communities.

Number of Pages: 256

Dimensions: 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN

Illustrated: Yes

Publication Date: October 11, 2024

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