Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2019

Publication Title

Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies

Volume

10

Issue

1

First Page

94

Last Page

117

Abstract

We tell stories with our bodies, precisely or con pasión. We tell stories con nuestras palabras, spoken and sung. We remember and retell stories given to us from grandmothers, older sisters, and comadres, stories that keep us alive as Leslie Marmon Silko’s character reminds us, and that also keep alive our traditions, both new and invented (Hobsbawm & Ranger, 1992). These retellings reinvigorate our memories of the storytellers from whose lips we receive grace and of the stories that sustain us. Art makers tell stories with images fashioned from graphite, ink, and paint. They tell stories with objects carefully formed from glass, stone, clay, wood, and fiber. Darkroom chemicals transform the latent image of the photograph into a visual reality, while digital images make order emerge from binary chaos.

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