Maria Speaks : Journeys into the Mysteries of

Sarah Amira de la Garza is presently Associate Professor of Communication and Southwest Borderlands Scholar in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University.

Illustrations

ix

Foreword

xi

Acknowledgments

xiii

Preface

xv

Part I. The Journeys Before the Journeys

1

(64)

The Preparation

3

(26)

Methodology

7

(1)

Emergence of the Study's Guiding Themes

8

(6)

Art as Meditation as Method for Autoethnography

14

(7)

Art as Meditation Methods

21

(8)

The Autoethnography

29

(26)

The Initiation

29

(4)

Into the Liminal

33

(1)

A Spiritual Autobiography

34

(4)

Wheat and Tares

38

(3)

And Then I Lost My Voice

41

(2)

Deconstructing the Cradle

43

(4)

The Spirituality of Deconstruction

47

(3)

When the Center Does Not Hold

50

(5)

The Intentional Journeys Begin

55

(10)

I Want to Be Bernadette

55

(1)

The Mysteries

56

(2)

The Mysteries of the Rosary

58

(2)

Finding the Rosary in My Body

60

(5)

Part II. Journeys into the Mysteries of My Life

65

(72)

Journey of the Heart

67

(12)

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

67

(2)

Stories of La Llorona

69

(1)

Letter to La Llorona

70

(2)

When I Learned Why La Llorona Cries

72

(5)

Prayer to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

77

(2)

Journey of the Mind

79

(14)

Meeting Sor Juana

79

(2)

Letter to Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz

81

(2)

My Protector---My Papa M. R.

83

(9)

Prayer to La Milagrosa

92

(1)

Journey of the Body

93

(12)

La Dolorosa

93

(2)

Unpacking the Mystique of Frida Kahlo

95

(3)

Letter to Frida Kahlo

98

(1)

Discovering the Bitterness in Maria

99

(5)

Prayer to La Dolorosa

104

(1)

Journey of the Voice

105

(20)

La Malinche...La Malinalli

105

(3)

Letter to Malinalli, la Malinche

108

(4)

Prayer to Nuestra Senora de los Espanoles

112

(3)

Letting Go of Malinalli's Legacy

115

(10)

The Journey of the Shapeshifting Woman

125

(12)

Who Was Tonantzin?

126

(2)

Prayer to Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe

128

(1)

Letter to Tonantzin

129

(2)

Coming Home by Shapeshifting

131

(5)

Second Prayer to Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe

136

(1)

Part III. The Return Home

137

(6)

Reflections on the Journeys

139

(4)

Notes

143

(2)

Bibliography

145

(2)

Index

147

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