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Imagine If This Were In Comic Sans

Tadeyeske, Chelsea Raina
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-0835
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1461847296

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2016, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
Imagine if This Were in Comic Sans is a collection of poems that acts as an exploration of scripted womanhood and sexuality as well as an examination of the physical and emotional body as a site of both trauma and desire. With no formal sections, the collection is composed of poems along with sparse images and cellphone screenshots that deal with the admiration of viscera, tortured movements through the mundane, and the warped filters trauma presses upon women’s desires. As a corrective to the assumptions that equate women’s emotional expression with melodrama and sentimentality, the work adopts a deliberately melodramatic, even grotesque tonality. The conversational style of the speaker in these poems is intended to solicit the reader’s empathy and/or identification with painful, sometimes shocking issues, traumas, and desires. Visuals added throughout embody the social, sexual subconscious that surrounds the speaker.
Cathy Wagner (Committee Chair)
49 p.
Gender Studies; Mental Health; Multimedia Communications; Personal Relationships; Psychology; Recreation; Theater
poetry; feminism; trauma studies; sexual trauma; sexual abuse; female sexuality; sexuality; feminine desire; female desire; melodrama; shame; internet

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  • Tadeyeske, C. R. (2016). Imagine If This Were In Comic Sans [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1461847296

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Tadeyeske, Chelsea. Imagine If This Were In Comic Sans. 2016. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1461847296.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Tadeyeske, Chelsea. "Imagine If This Were In Comic Sans." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1461847296

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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© 2016, some rights reserved.Creative Commons License Imagine If This Were In Comic Sans by Chelsea Raina Tadeyeske is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
This open access ETD is published by Miami University and OhioLINK.