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Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Transkulturalität in Gregory Navas 'My family' (Possibilities and limits of transculturality in Gregory Nava's 'My family')

This chapter is in German.

My family marks the international breakthrough of popular Chicano director Gregory Nava and serves as key example for the cinematic exploration of ‘artificial’ boundaries for Mexicans in the United States. My study addresses two main questions: 1. How does Nava’s critical interrogation of traditional US-American perspectives contribute to the blurring of boundaries? and 2. Where are the limits of Nava’s approach? The study concludes that My family ultimately supports assimilation tendencies, rather than the negotiation of identities. This enhances patterns of an imagined North American monoculturality and contradicts the director’s aim to develop transcultural alternatives based on the family concept.