Pioneers in the study of motion
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Major/Program
Creative Writing
First Advisor's Name
Campbell McGrath
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
James Sutton
Third Advisor's Name
Denise Duhamel
Date of Defense
11-17-2000
Abstract
From the multitudinous streets of Mexico City through the lonely highways of the United States, this collection of poetry charts strategies of representation across complex territories of culture and gender. These poems represent dialogues and negotiations with popular and poetic narratives of the Americas, as well as individual quests for identification against a backdrop of postmodern and postcolonial concerns. The effect is like that of a collage that elicits the reader's participation in order to produce individual signification. The figures alluded to in these pieces enact the struggle to situate the self within multiple registers of discourse and identity, as well as to establish a site from which to speak.
Identifier
FI14051836
Recommended Citation
Briante, Susan, "Pioneers in the study of motion" (2000). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1807.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1807
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