From Impressionism to Realism

Abstract

This article explores the difficulties I have experienced moving from Mexico City, the largest metropolitan area in Mexico, to a provincial capital in the center part of the country, the city of Aguascalientes. In order to do that, I present a short narrative of certain incidents that show how I have sorted out the journey in a search of developing a sense of belonging. This is an autoethnography exercise where I follow what Ellis (2004) calls narrative analysis, which “assumes that a good story itself is theoretical. . . . When people tell their stories, they employ analytic techniques to interpret their worlds” (pp. 195-196). I have also realized that, like Richardson and St. Pierre argue (2005), writing is a way of knowing because it was due to the introspection process I experienced as I was writing that I came to understand how much my story was mostly related to gender issues.