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Pretend Her Genealogies
Author Info
Smith, Sarah Jane
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1218072822
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2008, Master of Arts, Miami University, English: Creative Writing.
Abstract
This manuscript aims to complicate notions of being, identity, and selfhood by examining the possibilities of the poetic "I." While much of this work is autobiographical in nature, this manuscript proposes construction of selfhood as being not just a single line of uninterrupted self-narration, but a trajectory scored with various adopted and discarded identities. The ephemeral tone and abstracted content of this work are an attempt to explore the fluidity of identity and the nature of experience in the context of language. The "I" functions as not only the poem's speaker, but the focal point to a moment in time, a feeling, a realization, and the culmination of cultural and historical affects.
Committee
Catherine Wagner, PhD (Committee Chair)
David Schloss, MFA (Committee Member)
Madelyn Detloff, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
50 p.
Subject Headings
Asian Literature
;
Folklore
;
Human Remains
;
International Relations
;
Language
;
Language Arts
;
Womens Studies
Keywords
poetry
;
confessional
;
autobiography
;
genealogy
;
women's voice
;
women's writing
;
ethnic
;
asian
;
korean
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Smith, S. J. (2008).
Pretend Her Genealogies
[Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1218072822
APA Style (7th edition)
Smith, Sarah.
Pretend Her Genealogies.
2008. Miami University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1218072822.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Smith, Sarah. "Pretend Her Genealogies." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1218072822
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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© 2008, all rights reserved.
This open access ETD is published by Miami University and OhioLINK.
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