Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Major/Program
Creative Writing
First Advisor's Name
Julie Marie Wade
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee chair
Second Advisor's Name
Denise Duhamel
Second Advisor's Committee Title
Committee member
Third Advisor's Name
Maneck Daruwala
Third Advisor's Committee Title
Committee member
Keywords
Lyric essay collection
Date of Defense
3-6-2019
Abstract
A KALEIDOSCOPE: ESSAYS ON COLOR is a collection of ruminative lyric essays that seeks to plumb the questions How did we get here? following the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States. The speaker’s external probing of the present zeitgeist is juxtaposed with personal narrative; the speaker’s ongoing crisis of both geographical and ideological citizenship. Significant themes include truth, consequence, migration, and escape.
The literary elements of A KALEIDOSCOPE are informed by Joan Didion’s THE WHITE ALBUM as she tracks political and personal events of the 1960s using a journalistic approach. BLUETS by Maggie Nelson informs the obsessive poetics of the style. Neela Vaswani’s YOU HAVE GIVEN ME A COUNTRY provided another valuable model for interweaving cultural discourses, informing how the speaker straddles her British and American identities during the era of Brexit and Trump.
Identifier
FIDC007659
Recommended Citation
Firetto-Toomey, Chloe C. Ms, "Kaleidoscope: Essays on Color" (2019). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4024.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/4024
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