No More Magic Mirrors: Performing Intercultural Communication in a (Post?) Fairy Tale World

ABSTRACT

A poetic performative script is offered in this piece to highlight through critical playful speech the metaphoric, archetypal, and narrative forms of habituation and scripting that lay powerfully in the shadows of intercultural performative work, if only because we fail to interrogate the most mundane and repetitive framing stories, assumptions, and language.

KEYWORDS:

• Performance
• hegemony
• resistance
• critical studies
• intercultural communication
• Cross-cultural communication

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Sarah Amira de la Garza

Sarah Amira de la Garza is Associate Professor of Performance Studies and Intercultural Communication, and Southwest Borderlands Scholar in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University.  She specializes in decolonial and indigenous methodologies, as well as  critical performative, written and embodied scholarly inquiry.